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Book design / Chinese Feminism

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Chinese Feminism:
a woman's place is in bedroom


164*240mm / 240 pages / screen printing,digital print



In recent years, feminism has been one of the controversies. There are different views about feminism. I researched feminism and I present information about feminism in China during the past hundreds years, 1900-2017. The aim is to help people understand China and Chinese women using different perspectives, especially feminist ones. History should move forward so that things change, however humans often repeat mistakes from the past or they make mistakes because they cannot see what happened in the past.
In Chinese traditional way, we use peony as a symbol of riches and honour. In this book, I would like to add other meanings on the peony. The green we extract from leaves and branches indicates the male powever, the pink or magenda from flowever representing women's power. Therefore, for a society, a country wants to develop prosperously, only when men and women, can support each other like branches, leaves and the flowers do.

近年中国,女权一直是热议的中心,各方各执己见。于是我一边了解一边整理了中国这百年来的女性的历程。这不是一个学术报告也不是一个标准的历史教材,只是一个不成熟的自称为女权运动者的人想要让更多人去了解中国,了解中国女人。
历史线应该是往前行进的,而事实是历史总是在重复过去的错误或者过去的错误经过时代的包装在延续。
在中国,传统意义上来说,我们用牡丹形容荣华富贵。而在我的这本书里,我借牡丹作了一个比喻,绿色枝叶犹如男性存在社会的力量,而牡丹的洋红色或是粉色则象征着女性的力量。一个社会想要繁荣发展,只有男性和女性像枝叶和鲜花一般一并支撑,才能让这朵牡丹、这个社会更加完美地绽放。






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