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Title:	Interview with Wang Xingjuan
Authors:	Global Feminisms Project
Keywords:	global, feminism, feminists, intersectionality, cross-cultural, China, Chinese Feminists
Issue Date:	12-Mar-2004
Series/Report no.:	Global Feminisms China Site Interview
Abstract:	Wang Xingjuan, born in 1931, was an editor at the Beijing Publishing House for many years. After her retirement in 1988, she started the first women’s hot line in China. This initiative has grown into The Maple Women’s Counseling Center, where Wang Xingjuan is director. She is internationally renowned for creating and sustaining one of the earliest women’s NGOs in China. The Center is currently expanding its services to include not only direct services to women, but also intervention activities that aim to educate the community. Activists from the Center have linked with local communities to provide gender training workshops to police, judges, doctors, neighborhood committee officials and women’s federation officials to raise their awareness on domestic violence and gender hierarchies. Their intervention activism also involves setting up mechanisms in local communities to prevent domestic violence.
Description:	The 'Global Feminisms Project' is a collaborative international project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements and academic women's studies in China, India, Poland, and the United States. We are examining the histories of feminism in local contexts by collecting ten videotaped oral histories of women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in each country. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the US site research team. Our international collaborators are: SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, India; Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, Poland; China Women's University in Beijing, China; and Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. DIRECTIONS FOR VIEWING THE GLOBAL FEMINISMS INTERVIEWS: Click on the “via BlueStream” button to launch QuickTime Player, and then select the play button (►) in the lower left-hand corner of the QuickTime Player interface. Users may also launch QuickTime Player by clicking on the “View/Open” link associated with the MPEG, or video, file under the “Files in This Item” heading. Due to large file size, the video may take up to ten minutes to load. If the picture breaks up or does not flow freely, play the video for a minute, pause it for a minute, and then play again.
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