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December 9, 2025History of Education Quarterly

A New Way of Looking: Gender and the Education of Chinese Women in the Colonial World

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This essay uncovers how education and gender shaped modernity for Chinese women in the colonial era, revealing a transformative paradigm shift.

Key Points

  • This essay aims to explore the history of gender and education for Chinese women in the colonial world.
  • Analysis of colonial archives focusing on gender and education.
  • Comparison of orphans and marginalized women in historical contexts.
  • Examination of the shift from evangelization to modernization in Chinese women's education.
  • Identified gender as a key analytical tool for understanding colonial history.
  • Showed Chinese women were pivotal in discussions of modernity.
  • Revealed a paradigm shift in the perception of women's roles in colonial society.

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Stella Meng Wang (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69401d622d562116f28f8ec9https://doi.org/10.1017/heq.2025.10121
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