What can we learn about modern Chinese history by reading a marginalized set of materials from a widely neglected period? This book captures the ingenuity of a journal that captures the chaotic potentialities within China's early Republic and its global twentieth century.
"Republican Lens presents an innovative method of analyzing the commercial press and a sophisticated study of the tensions between the epic and the everyday in the early years of Republican China. Joan Judge gives us a deeper understanding of social changes and the link between gender and modernity through analyzing the subtle changes in everyday life."-Julia F. Andrews, coauthor of The Art of Modern China
"This study is a remarkable achievement. Judge's methodology sets a new standard for scholars studying the commercial press in other periods and countries."-Louise Edwards, author of Gender, Politics, and Democracy: Women's Suffrage in China
"Judge sheds light on how women’s lives were lived and conceptualized in the economically advanced cities of the new Chinese Republic... Republican Lens offers a complex portrait of Chinese urban life in the second decade of the 20th century. . . . Highly Recommended."
