Finding Women in the State: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1964

Finding Women in the State is a provocative hidden history of socialist state feminists maneuvering behind the scenes at the core of the Chinese Communist Party. These women worked to advance gender and class equality in the early People’s Republic and fought to transform sexist norms and practices, all while facing fierce opposition from a male—dominated CCP leadership from the Party Central to the local government. Wang Zheng extends this investigation to the cultural realm, showing how f...