Liang Jun (activist)
Liang Jun (Chinese: 梁 軍,; pinyin: Liáng Jūn; born 1945) is a Chinese activist and teacher, who has campaigned for women's right to education in China, as well as being a co-founder of both the Henan Community Education Research Centre and China's first women's history museum, the Henan Women and Children Activity Center.
Biography
An advocate for women's rights in China since the 1980s,[1] and in particular the right to education, in 1998 Liang co-founded the Henan Community Education Research Centre.[2][3] The centre worked to support women in rural areas to establish cooperatives, as well as campaigning against domestic violence, and other issues.[4] She has also worked with people who are HIV positive, and established the Red Ribbon Association.[2] She was later appointed Vice President of Zhengzhou University International Friendship Women's College.[4] Liang has also worked as an oral historian, collecting testimonies for China's first women's history museum, the Henan Women and Children Activity Center, which she co-founded with Li Xiaojiang and others.[2][5]
Selected publications
- Li Xiaojiang, and Liang Jun. "The Contradictory Aspects of Women Cadres' State of Mind and Social Adjustments: Also on Certain Issues Involving Construction of the Ranks of Women Cadres." Chinese Sociology & Anthropology 20.3 (1988): 52–68.[6]
- Liang Jun. "The Prevention and Cure of AIDS in Rural Areas: Experiences in Community Intervention." Chinese Sociology & Anthropology 40.4 (2008): 90-96.[7]
References
- ↑ Fangqin, Du (1997). "My Way into Women's Studies". Asian Journal of Women's Studies. 3 (1): 133–160. doi:10.1080/12259276.1997.11665789. ISSN 1225-9276.
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs named:2 - ↑ Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui (1999). Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-3146-9.
- ↑ Xiaojiang, Li; Jun, Liang (1 April 1988). "The Contradictory Aspects of Women Cadres' State of Mind and Social Adjustments". Chinese Sociology & Anthropology. 20 (3): 52–68. doi:10.2753/CSA0009-4625200352. ISSN 0009-4625.
- ↑ Jun, Liang (1 July 2008). "The Prevention and Cure of AIDS in Rural Areas: Experiences in Community Intervention". Chinese Sociology & Anthropology. 40 (4): 90–96. doi:10.2753/CSA0009-4625400407. ISSN 0009-4625. S2CID 147260073.