ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes to establish a new theoretical framework of Chinese intersectionality, to include state, market and cultural discourses in the gender analysis matrix both for gender-based violence research and Chinese feminism. It provides some questions to explore the possibilities of establishing a Chinese intersectionality theory within current feminist scholarship. The chapter argues that different types of violence do not have clear boundaries, as many quantitative studies demonstrate, and a single violent incident may include all types of violence. It presents a detailed discussion of how the three characteristics of post-socialist China – the state, market, and cultural hybridity – are entangled with women's images, studies of violence against women, and Chinese feminism and women's studies, and how they formulate a new framework of Chinese intersectionality as three important macro-political factors and discourses influencing young people's experiences of dating violence.
