Download or read book Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization written by Sharon Wesoky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining Chinese domestic as well as international circumstances surrounding the emergence of an independent women's movement in Beijing in the 1990s, this book seeks to explain how such a movement could have arisen after the repression of student activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. It also places this emergence in the context of theories of social movements, civil society and globalization.