Yu Zhengxie

Yu Zhengxie 兪正燮 other names
Yu Zhengxie in Portraits of Qing Dynasty Scholars (vol. 2, 1953; reprint ed., 2001)
Born	1775 (241 years ago) Yi County, Anhui
Died	1840 (aged 64–65) Jinling, Jiangsu
Nationality	China
Other names	Courtesy name: Li Chu (理初)

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.

References

1. Li, Chenyang (2000). The Sage and the Second Sex: Confucianism, Ethics, and Gender. Open Court. p. 195 Note 99.
2. Lu, Weijing (2008). True to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China. Stanford University Press. p. 116.

See also

• 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
• Zhengxie, Yu. (1833). "Jealousy is not a wicked behavior for a woman". Shanghai:Shangwu, reprint. ISBN 9787538259100