{"id":54632,"date":"2023-04-26T08:22:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T23:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/26\/chizuko-ueno-the-japanese-writer-stoking-chinas-feminist-underground"},"modified":"2023-04-26T08:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T23:22:53","slug":"chizuko-ueno-the-japanese-writer-stoking-chinas-feminist-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54632","title":{"rendered":"Chizuko Ueno: the Japanese writer stoking China\u2019s feminist underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ueno\u2019s books are hugely popular in China, where a crackdown on large-scale organising has stifled a nascent feminist movement<\/p>\n<p>To find evidence that China\u2019s feminist movement is gaining momentum \u2013 despite strict government censorship and repression \u2013 check bookshelves, nightstands and digital libraries. There, you might find a copy of one of Chizuko Ueno\u2019s books. The 74-year-old Japanese feminist and author of Feminism from Scratch and Patriarchy and Capitalism has sold more than a million books in China, according to Beijing Open Book, which tracks sales. Of these, 200,000 were sold in January and February alone.<\/p>\n<p>Ueno, a professor of sociology at the University of Tokyo, was little known outside Chinese academia until she delivered a <a href=\"https:\/\/wan.or.jp\/article\/show\/8348\">2019 matriculation speech<\/a> at the university in which she railed against its sexist admissions policies, sexual \u201cabuse\u201d by male students against their female peers, and the pressure women felt to downplay their academic achievements.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/26\/chizuko-ueno-the-japanese-writer-stoking-chinas-feminist-underground\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ueno\u2019s books are hugely popular in China, where a crackdown on large-scale organising has stifled a nascent feminist movementTo find evidence that China\u2019s feminist movement is gaining momentum \u2013 despite strict government censorship and repression \u2013 che&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,237,646,88,617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-feminism","category-gender","category-japan","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54650,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54632\/revisions\/54650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}