| Chapter 1: | Articulating Female Presence |
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Chapter 1
Articulating Female Presence
The Formation of Women's Print Media, 1898–1911
The paper Nüxuebao marks the beginning of a mission to save 200 million Chinese women and win equal rights for them.
—Pan Xuan, The Chinese Girls’ Progress, August 15, 1898
The goal of our society is to save 200 million Chinese women, recover their inalienable rights, and awaken their national consciousness so that they can serve the nation as nüguomin [women nationalists].
—The Mutual Love Society, Zhejiang Tide, March 1903
Women are mothers of the guomin. To build a new China, we must first have new women. To strengthen China, we must first