The Best Feminist You've Never Heard Of: He-Yin Zhen

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  • @anarchozoe
    @anarchozoe  3 роки тому +93

    If you want to read He-Yin yourself see the birth of Chinese feminism: essential texts in transnational theory. There's a free pdf on libgen.
    cup.columbia.edu/book/the-birth-of-chinese-feminism/9780231162906

  • @Chairman_Miao
    @Chairman_Miao 3 роки тому +168

    Damn I'm Chinese, and even I've never heard of her. Gotta look her up in Chinese now. Thx for the video!

    • @paifu.
      @paifu. 3 роки тому +7

      Use a vpn, the chinese government probably doesn't like Anarchists very much

    • @Chairman_Miao
      @Chairman_Miao 3 роки тому +26

      @@paifu. Don't worry, I don't live in China

    • @paifu.
      @paifu. 3 роки тому +10

      @@Chairman_Miao Oh ok, that's good lol

    • @MyAce8
      @MyAce8 3 роки тому +23

      @@paifu. you can't use youtube in china without a vpn

  • @ElectricUnicycleCrew
    @ElectricUnicycleCrew 3 роки тому +152

    "But anarchists have no theory!"
    Sarcasm aside, this is a brilliant video. More people need to see this.

  • @Andrewism
    @Andrewism 3 роки тому +87

    A lot of her writing sounds similar to Öcalan's work in Liberating Life. Very fascinating stuff!

  • @AnarchoPill
    @AnarchoPill 3 роки тому +123

    Awesome video, I love when you cover topics not typically included or paid attention to, even by anarchists. Would love to hear more about non-Euro/American anarchists.

  • @Anark
    @Anark 3 роки тому +55

    An *excellent* video. I find it really interesting that He Yin Zhen was exploring a sort of proto-intersectionality and gender constructivism so far back! It's a shame she doesn't get recognition for it, as those are theoretical developments that many anarchist movements have struggled with in the past and still sometimes struggle with today. I also appreciate your inclusion of her erm...questionable views on sex work and sexuality in general. Very insightful and I look forward to more videos about non-western anarchism.

  • @PiceaSitchensis
    @PiceaSitchensis 3 роки тому +56

    Zoe Baker keep up the excellent work!!

  • @johnhankok3261
    @johnhankok3261 3 роки тому +36

    Wake up babe, new anarchopac video dropped

  • @xiangqujuly4077
    @xiangqujuly4077 3 роки тому +9

    Hi I'm Chinese here and I've never heard of her either... Thanks for the informative content! But on a side note, I believe "He" is her last/family name, and "Yinzhen" the first/given name, Chinese names just work differently.

    • @anarchozoe
      @anarchozoe  3 роки тому +12

      Thanks. Her original family name was "He" and she then changed it to "He-Yin" to include her mother's maiden name. Her first name was Zhen.

  • @eliasaceves9506
    @eliasaceves9506 3 роки тому +30

    gender abolitionism discourse in the early 1900s? so amazing

  • @LuckyBlackCat
    @LuckyBlackCat 3 роки тому +7

    Thanks for this video on the anarchist-feminist theory of He-Yin Zhen. I'm looking forward to your future videos on various anarchists from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

  • @IshtarNike
    @IshtarNike 3 роки тому +30

    Weird that I've actually heard of her and read portions of that book you showed. Too bad I've finished my degree now and can't access academic literature anymore.

    • @lightarmanov6266
      @lightarmanov6266 3 роки тому +21

      academic literature should be free

    • @latcha1424
      @latcha1424 3 роки тому +6

      I don't know if you saw it but the creator pinned info on a resource to read a bit of her work!

  • @Diod161
    @Diod161 3 роки тому +20

    Yay!! New anarchopac video :)))!!!

  • @trans_and_gothicpiano2676
    @trans_and_gothicpiano2676 3 роки тому +37

    This is why I want to learn Chinese! There are so many leftist Chinese thinkers and activists who we in richer countries never hear about.
    Which book would you recommend to read of He-Yin first?

  • @sereminar4
    @sereminar4 3 роки тому +18

    Thanks for another super informative video! I'm really enjoying learning about non European anarchists :)

  • @aureliadiwu_cotofan
    @aureliadiwu_cotofan 2 роки тому +6

    this is just amazing! I just came to know her this morning! I'm native Chinese and I have never heard of her! Due to her husband's controversial position during the nationalist revolution in the 1910s, she and her husband were sort of seen as traitors of revolution and her voices became marginal. But gradually as the feminist movement is becoming more and more influential in China now, people start to rediscover her and her writings. I literally just listened a Chinese podcast about her and then searched about her on youtube . Thanks for this video!

  • @tomio8072
    @tomio8072 3 роки тому +18

    I saw how the LSF put up reading recommendations on their instagram, and at the top of the feminist section was her feminist manifesto, didn't know anything about her up until now and wow!

  • @joliewong5730
    @joliewong5730 3 роки тому +12

    Thanks for another great video, I just wanted to mention that it would have been nice to hear the accurate pronunciation of He-Yin’s name, as you pronounced “He” like the pronoun “He” but it’s actually pronounced like ‘Huh’.

    • @anarchozoe
      @anarchozoe  3 роки тому +12

      I spent ages watching clips of people pronouncing her name and tried my best to copy what it sounded like. Thanks for the correction.

  • @howardsaffer-meng8839
    @howardsaffer-meng8839 3 роки тому +12

    You should exploit the community tab more. Anyways great video

  • @badger1296
    @badger1296 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks Zoe 🖤♥️

  • @avaraymond2364
    @avaraymond2364 3 роки тому +6

    A great video on a fascinating subject! Thanks for all the hard work!

  • @Burlak4
    @Burlak4 3 роки тому +5

    Yesterday on the news I saw they have a new portrait to commemorate Norway's first female MP in 1911. Exactly the kind of liberal feminist victory Hé-Yīn critiques here. Relevant political points 100 years later! Great video Zoe!

    • @0w8wsj7w
      @0w8wsj7w 3 роки тому +1

      [Insert minority] drone pilots hahahahahah

  • @crackedrod6778
    @crackedrod6778 3 роки тому +5

    Here we gooooo, can't wait to watch

  • @badger1296
    @badger1296 6 місяців тому

    This is truly an amazing video. I think that He-Yin would be proud!

  • @WhatsTherapy
    @WhatsTherapy 3 роки тому +3

    fantastic work, thank you. as always. thanks again

  • @lucaalves199
    @lucaalves199 3 роки тому +5

    Great work per usual!

  • @dqnielMC
    @dqnielMC 3 роки тому +2

    glad i found this hiden gem channel! Keep up the good work comrade!

  • @annaluytan
    @annaluytan 10 місяців тому

    amazing work, thank you for making this

  • @Tellez.43
    @Tellez.43 3 роки тому +2

    Excellent video as always! ❤️🖤

  • @actual-spinster
    @actual-spinster 3 роки тому +3

    this is so good !!!thank you!!

  • @DrAnarchy69
    @DrAnarchy69 3 роки тому +4

    Very interesting video, good work.

  • @TheOptimisticCommunist
    @TheOptimisticCommunist 3 роки тому +2

    great as always!!

  • @wonderingalbatross2400
    @wonderingalbatross2400 Рік тому

    10:07 Great points!!!I
    I can't quite elborate butThat kind of reminds me of mad max fury road as "the question who kill the world?" It obviously refers to immortal joe and his war body Valhalla death cult false consciousness: and how everybody and everything were immortal joe's private property, while some like war boys oppressed by immortal joe while help him maintain his system.
    As many people in the waste creates and adopts role and identites to cope with it, they immerse themselves into the chain of conquest and oppression while unable to how that made them part of of it and failed to find a way out.

  • @eabea
    @eabea 3 роки тому +3

    thank you

  • @РоманИсламов-г2ъ
    @РоманИсламов-г2ъ 3 роки тому +2

    great video, thanks!

  • @davidblay7252
    @davidblay7252 3 роки тому +1

    thank you very much for this

  • @kingcyrusthegreat3887
    @kingcyrusthegreat3887 3 роки тому +1

    Great work and video , on a side note this is King Jon ☺️ I'm sorry for the New look but my channel got suspended and I'm making a appeal to get it back so this is my new channel temporarily till I get that channel back.

  • @David-rg5cw
    @David-rg5cw 3 роки тому +1

    Excellent. Thank you

  • @cloneguy77
    @cloneguy77 2 роки тому

    Really cool video! Just wanted to say that the nan nü is pronounced more like nan nyu rather than nannu. Love to see anarchist feminists on the channel

  • @grenthemagician
    @grenthemagician 3 роки тому +1

    thx for the video!

  • @Rhettofbodom
    @Rhettofbodom 3 роки тому +5

    Love it

  • @cvestick
    @cvestick 3 роки тому

    Your videos are so so informational. Thanks for sharing history with us o7

  • @MrKumaraPie
    @MrKumaraPie 3 роки тому

    Fantastic, well done! Thanks for this :)

  • @LupaDracolis
    @LupaDracolis 3 роки тому

    This was fascinating! Thanks for the info

  • @davidmacaart953
    @davidmacaart953 3 роки тому

    Awesome! thanks Zoe.

  • @amandasmith4089
    @amandasmith4089 3 роки тому

    This was such a good video!

  • @TheSci-fiAnarchist42
    @TheSci-fiAnarchist42 3 роки тому

    Thanks for the video, I loved it. 😉👍

  • @lukei7291
    @lukei7291 3 роки тому +10

    Yayyy

  • @Den_Underbara
    @Den_Underbara 3 роки тому

    Great video as always 💯🤩

  • @whereisawesomeness
    @whereisawesomeness 3 роки тому +1

    Love the video and your work more generally, it’s super important and interesting to learn about non-Western perspectives on anarchism. I do have one critique of He-Yin’s approach, which is that she seems to confuse feminism (the abolition of patriarchy) with the liberation of all women. The two are closely intertwined, but she fails to argue that. She is of course correct in saying that the state would be just as oppressive if its power were shared equally by women as by men, there’s no doubt about that. However, if we take only her critiques of the state and ignore those of all others, the state is not patriarchal when its power is shared with women. It still oppresses women, but in their role as citizens, not as women (at least insofar as we ignore the intersection between the state and economic forces). She fails to argue that the state is inherently patriarchal regardless of the position of individual women. To put it another way, she argues that anarchism is inherently feminist, but not that feminism is inherently anarchist. I hope I’ve explained myself clearly?

    • @th-ck9vl
      @th-ck9vl 2 роки тому

      Usually when we say the liberation of women we mean that goal will be achieved by abolishing patriarchy. And I don't know much about her country, but in the rest of the world countries with a higher share of women in power, and with more gender equality in general, have less rates of poverty and violence and are happier. Scandinavia case in point. So I'm a grander sense, sharing power with women eases oppression greatly.

  • @edgarroberts8740
    @edgarroberts8740 3 роки тому +2

    Damn, Zhen was way ahead of her time. Amazing.

  • @LuckyBlackCat
    @LuckyBlackCat 3 роки тому +1

    Btw is this referring to laws in China or in Japan? --> "laws which dictated that when a man committed a crime the punishment would be applied not only to the guilty man but also to the innocent women within his household"

  • @finhammatt5164
    @finhammatt5164 3 роки тому +1

    is He-Yins theoretical understanding of the development of patriarchy supported by the historical record of china?

    • @jintheninja8234
      @jintheninja8234 3 роки тому +2

      pretty much. but the chinese anarchists def were influenced by modernist thinking from europe and japan.

  • @tormunnvii3317
    @tormunnvii3317 3 роки тому +8

    I like her critique of lustfulness, we need more of it on the Left.

    • @nskeow
      @nskeow 3 роки тому +2

      Yeah it’s refreshing. Some leftists are so sex positive, almost to a fault.

    • @revelationreflection
      @revelationreflection 3 роки тому +1

      yes I concur

  • @kingcyrusthegreat3887
    @kingcyrusthegreat3887 3 роки тому +1

    Their where also many chinese Anarchist during the period of the Communist revolution in China also there is some thinking of some Taoist going against Confucian doctrine and where proto Anarchism though I don't like calling that cause the people at the time wouldn't call it that.

  • @michaeledwin2072
    @michaeledwin2072 3 роки тому +1

    Sounds very much like Ocalan writings

  • @esen1085
    @esen1085 2 роки тому

    "He-Yin was born in 1994...", few seconds later: "In 1904 she married the classical scholar, Liu Shipei"

  • @ThunderFire101
    @ThunderFire101 3 роки тому +4

    Love Ur work but Plz ask a chinese person a better way to pronounce their words.

  • @michealruth8925
    @michealruth8925 3 роки тому +1

    Based

  • @qkranarchist3015
    @qkranarchist3015 Рік тому

    Trying to "like" the video but it won't let me. So just going to say "I like the video."

  • @artemkanarchist
    @artemkanarchist 3 роки тому +1

    ❤️🖤

  • @Blu3Smoke
    @Blu3Smoke 3 роки тому +4

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  • @ncrtrooper1782
    @ncrtrooper1782 3 роки тому

    I just read the Feminist Manifesto lmfao

  • @lightarmanov6266
    @lightarmanov6266 3 роки тому

    Ive heard of her but only cause i joined some obscure anfem irc group

  • @puppydestroyah
    @puppydestroyah 3 роки тому +2

    First

  • @anarchistpoops161
    @anarchistpoops161 3 роки тому +3

    36th

  • @mitskiluvr420
    @mitskiluvr420 3 роки тому +1

    gender abolitionist he-yin zhen?

  • @wolfcoma
    @wolfcoma 3 роки тому +3

    "Best feminist"...

    • @wolfcoma
      @wolfcoma 3 роки тому

      @@adr6464 Yes and?