A Cultural History of the Chinese Character “Ta (她, She)”

This book offers a thorough examination of the history of a Chinese female pronoun – the Chinese character " Ta (她, She) " and demonstrates how the invention and identification of this new word is inextricably intertwined with matters of sociocultural politics. The Chinese character Ta for the third-person feminine singular pronoun was introduced in the late 1910s when the voices of women’s liberation rang out in China. The invention and dissemination of this word not only reflected an ideologic