Why did liberal feminism lead the way when Western feminisms travelled to China in the 1980s–1990s?

American feminist ideas are often said to have global reach, and even to be hegemonic relative to the feminisms of other advanced industrialized countries. This chapter studies the material conditions under which some feminist ideas travelled from the West to post-Mao China. It studies the production, dissemination, and reception of ideas by looking at the history of socialist/Marxist feminism in North America (the US and English-speaking Canada), and investigates why liberal feminism is more in alignment with post-Mao China in the 1980s and 1990s.