Educational Memory of Chinese Female Intellectuals in Early Twentieth Century

This book studies three female Chinese intellectuals in the first half of the 20th century, namely Feng Yuanjun, Lu Yin, and Cheng Junying, the first graduates of Beijing Female Higher Normal College, which was the first-ever national higher educational institution for women in modern China. Combining narrative inquiry, life history, oral history, and psychohistory methods, it comprehensively explores the specific developmental paths and mental processes of the post-May Fourth female intellectuals, and examines the complex interrelationships between various factors including social, academic, gender, and educational evolution in the first half of the 20th century, and the emergence of modern Chinese female intellectuals.

Lijing Jiang is an associate professor of History of Chinese Education at the School of Education Science, Qufu Normal University, China. She received her Ph.D. from East China Normal University (2008) and has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University since October 2014. Her research interests include gender and women’s history of education, life history, comparative education, etc. She is the author of Beyond the Educational Memory of the Post-May Fourth Female Intellectuals (2012), which was nominated for the National 100 Best Ph.D. Papers Award, bestowed by the Ministry of Education China (2010).