Yu Zhengxie

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Yu Zhengxie
兪正燮
Yu Zhengxie in Portraits of Qing Dynasty Scholars (vol. 2, 1953; reprint ed., 2001)
Born	1775 (1775) Yi County, Anhui, Qing Dynasty
Died	1840 (aged 64–65) Jinling, Jiangsu
Other names	Courtesy name: Li Chu (理初)
Occupation	Philosopher, scholar, philologist, writer
Chinese name
showTranscriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yú Zhèngxiè Wade–Giles Yü Cheng-hsieh

Yu Zhengxie (1775–1840) was a Chinese male feminist^[1] of the Qing Dynasty. He was a noted critic of foot binding, female infanticide, widow suicide, widow chastity,^[2] and the double standard. A skilled philologist, Yü researched the history of language, which influenced his views on women. According to his interpretation, the Han historical texts supported an egalitarian view of marriage.

Further reading[]

• Brownell, Susan and Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. (2002). Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: A Reader. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-22116-8
• Ko, Dorothy (1995) Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2359-1 [1]
• Zhengxie, Yu. (1833). "Jealousy is not a wicked behavior for a woman". Shanghai:Shangwu, reprint. ISBN 9787538259100
• Hummel, Arthur W. Sr., ed. (1943). "Yü Chêng-hsieh" . Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing Office.

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