China & Inner Asia: Table of Contents
Organizer and Chair: Yuanxi Ma, Baker & McKenzie
Discussants: Xiaolan Bao, California State University, Long Beach; Xueping Zhong, Tufts University; Wu Xu, Utah Department of Health; Bohong Liu, National Women’s Federation of China; Yihong Jin, Academy of Social Sciences of Jiangsu Province
Chinese Society of Women's Studies in the United States co-sponsored a seminar with the Women’s Studies Program at the Academy of Social Sciences in Nanjing, China in the summer of 1997. One focus of the seminar is the globalization vs./and nationalization of women’s studies and activism in China discussed from different aspects—theoretical, economic, cultural and of women's health, which will also be the focus and issues taken up at this Roundtable discussion.
The presentations, though in different thematic aspects, will address the tension and negotiation between Western feminism and "Chinese indigenous feminism." Since the economic reform in China, a major focus of contention involves evaluating dominant development theories and searching for and defining models and paradigms that are relevant to China’s specific social and political context and that will help empower the Chinese women, especially the under-privileged women in the development process.
As all the participants in the Roundtable discussion were presenters at the seminar in China—among whom two will be specially coming from China—case studies, actual incidents and examples will be incorporated in the presentations.