The far from short history of feminism in China consists of several stages of development, very uneven in time and intensity. The origin of the “women’s issue” here is primarily associated with the activities of Christian missionaries, and at the beginning of the last century, the emancipation of women was stimulated by Chinese revolutionaries as an important component of the emancipation of the nation. The equality of the sexes enshrined in the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, alas, has not led, by and large, to a serious development of women's self-awareness. The new reform period in the country, when, in particular, they tried to solve the most acute problems of unemployment by “returning women home”, revealed the complexity of gender relations and, among other things, served as an incentive for the development of both women’s studies and the self-awareness and self-organization of Chinese women. In PDF A4 format The publishing layout has been preserved.