TALK ON THE CHINESE FEMININE-HEROIC QIU JIN TO BE HELD AT EMORY ON APRIL 18

Dr. Joan Judge, Associate Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, will make a presentation on "the Chinese Feminine-heroic new style women warriors at the turn of the twentieth century" on Monday, April 18, 2005, 4:30 p.m. at White Hall 112 at Emory University. In examining the complexities of the new feminine-heroic mode in China at the turn of the twentieth century, this talk examines the role of nationalism in both authorizing and limiting the new discourse on women as human beings which emerged in this period. Focusing on the example of the revolutionary martyr Qiu Jin (1875-1907), it analyzes the gender paradoxes which underlay the constitution of women as new human/national/historical subjects.