Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China: The Case of the Huang-

CONTENTS

0.    Introduction

0.1 The Elopement

0.2 May Fourth Feminisms

0.3 Women's Agency

0.4 Vernacularization of May Fourth Feminisms

0.5 Public

0.6 Conservatisms

0.7 Chapter Design

1.      Chapter 1: In Search of Women's Agency in Everyday Life: The Construction of the Huang-Lu Love Affair in the Press

1.2 The Spectacularity and Performativity of the Trials

1.3 From Rural to Urban: Huang's Interactions with the Press

1.4 Closing the Social Drama: Birth and Death

1.5 One Man's Fight: the Making of a Personal Identity

2.      Chapter 2: The Trials of Lu Genrong: The Criminal Law Reform and Women's Agency in Late 1920s China

2.1 The Criminal Law Reform and Women's Agency in Late 1920s China

2.3 Women's Sexuality in Criminal Law Reforms in Twentieth-century China

2.4 Heyou or Lüeyou: The Trials of Lu Genrong

2.5 Punishing Lu Genrong

2.6 Legal Practice in Republican China Reconsidered

3.   Chapter 3: Polysemy: Discussions and Debates on the Huang-Lu Love Affair

3.1 Love and Revolution

3.2 Debates: Anarcho-feminism

3.3 Debates: Sexual Anarchism

3.4 Debates: the "Doctrine of the Woman's Return to Home"

3.5 Zou Taofen's "Unconventional" Solution

4.   Chapter 4: Polyphony: Vernacularized Feminisms and the Urban Network of Communication

4.1 The News Industry in the Late 1920s    

4.2 The News Network

4.3 Elite Intellectuals' Scandalization of the Huang-Lu Affair

5.   Chapter 5: Vernacularization as Global and Local Experiences: The Huang-Lu Affair in Film and Literature

5.1 Way Down East in the Chinese Market

5.2 Tears and Flowers: Griffith-inspired Melodrama Films

5.3 Living Hell in Shanghai: The Modern Girl in a Popular Novel