Reimagined Confucianism and the “New Woman”: Shen Yiyun and the synthesis of humanism and patriotism in modern Chinese Women’s education

Shen Yiyun embodied the intellectual and political fermentation of early 20th-century China. Born Shen Xingzhen (沈性真), a name reflecting her father’s aspiration for her to embody “natural authenticity”, she strategically reinvented…