Table 2 Focused periods and political camps for sampling.

From: Renovating Confucian ideas for gender equality: an inquiry of Confucian feminist debates in modern China

Periods

Works for context analysis

Intellectuals’ political camps

1890s–1900s

Chang, 1980, Lee, 1995; Li, 2009

Reformers

1900s–1910s

Mann, 2000; Strand, 2011; Sun, 2014

Revolutionaries

1910s–1920s

Chang, 2004

Communists, nationalists

  1. Source: Author’s compilation.