Abstract: This paper analyzes the over-one-hundred-year history of Chaoshan Crochet, drawing on methods of archives and in-depth interviews. Based on theories of feminist geography, this paper explores the bodily performance of Chaoshan females in the process of taking part in the Crochet activities. Specifically, the Crochet activities in Chaoshan area can be divided into four stages: the colonial march, commune flower garden, family workshop and creative space. In such a long historical process, females’ Crochet activities are continuously engaging with the construction and performativity of their gendered identities. On this basis, this paper challenges the stereotyped image of the Chaoshan females as ‘staying in the household, respecting mother/father in law, being loyal to husband, teaching children, worshipping Gods, boiling soup, and family life based’. Through their Crochet activities, this paper argues, the participation of the economic activities for Chaoshan females has greatly been involved into the process of constructing their identity as ‘economical people’, and their Crochet activities have thus changed their spatial practices and performances. Their spatiality has gradually focused from the private space in this household to the more public realms. In doing so, this paper has contributed to the challenge of the binary framework of the public (the masculine, the economic and the political) and the private (the feminize, the non-economic and non-political)asaformoffeministeconomicgeographicalresearch.