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Citation Assignment
It was during the May Fourth era that the term "new woman" emerged in China. This term was used by Hu Shi (1891-1962) during a 1918 lecture as he suggested that women were more than just "good wives and wise mothers" and instead, much like the May Fourth movement itself, pushed for women's' freedom and individuality in the larger national framework.


 * Even though I added in a citation the article is lacking a lot of information, so I decided to make a sentence as well (and add citation of course).

Starting my article: New Women (China)
The New Women of China began to emerge off of the pages of Chinese literature beginning mostly in the 1920’s. However, ideas surrounding feminism, gender equality, and modernization began in China far before the 1920’s New Women emerged from its context. The New Women of China and the movement itself went through various incarnations along with the changing social landscape it emerged from.

Fall of the Qing to pre-May Fourth Era
It was during the May Fourth era that the term "New Woman" first emerged in China. This term, used by Hu Shi (1891-1962) during a 1918 lecture, suggested that women were more than just "good wives and wise mothers" and instead, much like the May Fourth movement itself, pushed for women's freedom and individuality in the larger national framework. . However, Hu Shi along with a handful of other male intellectuals, were the minority pushing for women’s involvement in society.

New Women of the 1910’s were not as progressive as the New Women of the 1920’s. New Women during the early Republican period had to contend heavily with the ‘woman question’. During this period, women's education was promoted, but as a tool to create women who would be equipped to “raise healthy and morally sound sons”, who would then help build a new China. In this sense, while education was promoted for women, it was from the standpoint of creating wives and mothers who would help to raise the future generation of patriotic children. So even though education was promoted for women, it was not for their personal benefit but instead for the state and nation. Early New Women such as Hu Binxia, who was an early editor for The Ladies Journal, promoted in her articles the ideas of education to learn how to support a family and participate in the cult of domesticity.

However, other like minded male reformers to Hu Shi, such as Chen Duxiu promoted a very different kind of women for China’s changing political, social, and economic landscape pre-May Fourth era. Founder of the New Youth journal, Chen Duxiu called for gender and family reforms and pushed for the emancipation of women and the dismantling of the restrictive Confucian family system. Chen, like other radical-minded male intellectuals of his time, believed “women’s equality to be the hallmark of a modern civilization” and the strength behind a nation. Thus “customs of concubinage, foot binding, widow chastity, and female seclusion”, from these male intellectuals view points, needed to go to allow women to freely participate in the nations rebuilding. It is important to note that while men may have been backing the idea of women’s freedom from the Confucian system, this was so that women could be mobilized to the cause of nationalism not necessarily so that they could be emancipated as individuals.

Post-May Fourth Era to the early 1930’s
Influences of Us, Europeans and Japan, reference to women question (I am), Change to women's journal (queering), Lu Xun, suicide relates to old way of things (gender and suicide), Nora (revisioning and I am),

Nora's Influence on Early to Mid Twentieth century Chinese literature
Ding Ling, Chen Xuezhao (gender 254),

Characteristics of the New Women in literature and in Chinese 1920’s-1930’s
Gender 252, Kang Aide (naming 205), Ding Ling (revisioning), Xiao Hong, Figuring modernity article, modern girl

My own comments to help me remember

 * Bullet pointed in bibliography means used. Make sure to make bibliography with the other possibly sources just to have them ready.
 * Consider condensing or changing the last two subheadings ...too similar?