This article uses gender analysis to reexamine the New Lifk Movement illustrating how strategies for women＇s leadership cultivation played an important role in Guomindang （GMD） state-building efforts during the 193...This article uses gender analysis to reexamine the New Lifk Movement illustrating how strategies for women＇s leadership cultivation played an important role in Guomindang （GMD） state-building efforts during the 1930s and 1940s. The GMD government promoted the New Life Movement to rectify the morals and conduct of civil servants and the general public for the purpose of building a modern nation-state at minimum cost. Although the New Life Movement is best known for employing urban middle-class centric approaches to reform, its Women＇s AdvisoW Council （WAC） carried the moderr）izing project to China＇s rural interior, where tbe GMD was previously bereft of access to local society. Although the WAC prioritized the mobilization of rural women for the war effort, its endeavors transcended the confinement of ＂women＇s work＂ and were instrumental in bridging the central government and local authorities, bringing the state into rural households.展开更多
文摘This article uses gender analysis to reexamine the New Lifk Movement illustrating how strategies for women＇s leadership cultivation played an important role in Guomindang （GMD） state-building efforts during the 1930s and 1940s. The GMD government promoted the New Life Movement to rectify the morals and conduct of civil servants and the general public for the purpose of building a modern nation-state at minimum cost. Although the New Life Movement is best known for employing urban middle-class centric approaches to reform, its Women＇s AdvisoW Council （WAC） carried the moderr）izing project to China＇s rural interior, where tbe GMD was previously bereft of access to local society. Although the WAC prioritized the mobilization of rural women for the war effort, its endeavors transcended the confinement of ＂women＇s work＂ and were instrumental in bridging the central government and local authorities, bringing the state into rural households.
