Harvard International Review Half the Sky, But Not Yet Equal: China's Feminist Movement Author(s): ALICE HU Source: Harvard International Review, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Spring 2016), pp. 15-18 Published by: Harvard International Review Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26445831 Accessed: 22-10-2019 01:29 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms Harvard International Review is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Harvard International Review This content downloaded from 206.253.207.235 on Tue, 22 Oct 2019 01:29:33 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms GLOBAL NOTEBOOK China raised by another family to become a designated bride). Besides protecting women and girls from feudal prac Half thethe Sky,Sky, ButBut Not Not Yet Yet Equal Equal tices, the law also extended the repre China'sChina s FeministFeminist Movement sentation of women by guaranteeing women equal rights in the ownership staff writer and management of family property, ALICE HU as well as the equal right to petition for divorce. The law even went as far Indeed, Chinese feminism has its as guaranteeing women the right to has been one of the most pub own historic context different from keep their own family names — an The Chinese licized phenomena economic on the miracle that of the West, but an outdated vi act that would have been considered international stage.