Chinese Women Writers On The Environment

Author : Dong Isbister,,Xiumei Pu,Stephen D. Rachman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781476640136

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Chinese Women Writers on the Environment by Dong Isbister,,Xiumei Pu,Stephen D. Rachman Pdf

The stories, prose and poems in this anthology offer readers a unique and generous array of women's experiences in China. In a world that is rapidly modernizing, these writings attempt to reconcile with the ever-changing people, plants, beasts and environment. After five years of painstaking collection and translation, the authors present these stories of strength and sadness, defiance and resilience, urban and village life, from the days of the cultural revolution to the present. Whether a house full of hawks and eagles, a stubborn cow, or a defiant elderly couple sabotaging a lumber operation, these stories express powerful visions of the earth interwoven with human memory.

Author : Norman Smith
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780774841122

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Resisting Manchukuo by Norman Smith Pdf

The first book in English on women’s history in twentieth-century Manchuria, Resisting Manchukuo adds to a growing literature that challenges traditional understandings of Japanese colonialism. Norman Smith reveals the literary world of Japanese-occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo, 1932-45) and examines the lives, careers, and literary legacies of seven prolific Chinese women writers during the period. He shows how a complex blend of fear and freedom produced an environment in which Chinese women writers could articulate dissatisfaction with the overtly patriarchal and imperialist nature of the Japanese cultural agenda while working in close association with colonial institutions.

Author : Fangzhu Zhang,Fulong Wu
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781803922041

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Handbook on China’s Urban Environmental Governance by Fangzhu Zhang,Fulong Wu Pdf

This Handbook addresses how Chinese cities govern environmental changes generated by fast economic growth and urbanisation. With in-depth case studies on governing waste management, climate change, and energy transition, it will illuminate the relationship between the state, market, and society in environmental governance.

Author : Haiping Yan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134570898

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Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948 by Haiping Yan Pdf

This book works equally well in the following multiple fields: Gender Studies, Literary/Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Asian and Pacific Studies, Chinese Studies, Critical Theory and Literary Historiography

Author : Michael S. Duke
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0765638568

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Modern Chinese Women Writers by Michael S. Duke Pdf

The essays in this volume consider the state of current writing of the world's best Chinese women writers. All the contributors relate their authors to the life and work of other contemporary Chinese women writers, and compare work coming from PRC, Taiwan and overseas Chinese. The essays make a contribution to the fields of Modern Chinese literature and women's studies, and although they are primarily intended to bear witness to the quality of women's writing, they also attempt to elucidate the complex issues of Chinese women's lives in the contemporary world.

Author : Kay Schaffer,Xianlin Song
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135091354

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Women Writers in Postsocialist China by Kay Schaffer,Xianlin Song Pdf

What does it mean to read from elsewhere? Women Writers in Postsocialist China introduces readers to a range and variety of contemporary Chinese women’s writing, which has seen phenomenal growth in recent years. The book addresses the different ways women’s issues are understood in China and the West, attending to the processes of translation, adaptation, and the grafting of new ideas with existing Chinese understandings of gender, feminism, subjectivity, consumerism and (post) modernism. By focusing on women’s autobiographical, biographical, fictional and historical writing, the book engages in a transcultural flow of ideas between western and indigenous Chinese feminisms. Taking account of the accretions of social, cultural, geographic, literary, economic, and political movements and trends, cultural formations and ways of thinking, it asks how the texts and the concepts they negotiate might be understood in the social and cultural spaces within China and how they might be interpreted differently elsewhere in the global locations in which they circulate. The book argues that women-centred writing in China has a direct bearing on global feminist theory and practice. This critical study of selected genres and writers highlights the shifts in feminist perspectives within contemporary local and global cultural landscapes.

Author : Robin Visser
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231553292

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Questioning Borders by Robin Visser Pdf

Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomadic, hunting, foraging, or fishing peoples. Questioning Borders explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan, analyzing relations among humans, animals, ecosystems, and the cosmos in search of alternative possibilities for creativity and consciousness. Informed by extensive field research, Robin Visser compares literary works by Bai, Bunun, Kazakh, Mongol, Tao, Tibetan, Uyghur, Wa, Yi, and Han Chinese writers set in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Southwest China, and Taiwan, sites of extensive development, migration, and climate change impacts. Visser contrasts the dominant Han Chinese cosmology of center and periphery that informs what she calls “Beijing Westerns” with Indigenous and hybridized ways of relating to the world that challenge borders, binaries, and hierarchies. By centering Indigenous cosmologies, this book aims to decolonize approaches to ecocriticism, comparative literature, and Chinese and Sinophone studies as well as to inspire new modes of sustainable flourishing in the Anthropocene.

Author : Chia-ju Chang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030186340

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Chinese Environmental Humanities by Chia-ju Chang Pdf

Chinese Environmental Humanities showcases contemporary ecocritical approaches to Chinese culture and aesthetic production as practiced in China itself and beyond. As the first collaborative environmental humanities project of this kind, this book brings together sixteen scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, including literary and cultural studies, philosophy, ecocinema and ecomedia studies, religious studies, minority studies, and animal or multispecies studies. The fourteen chapters are conceptually framed through the lens of the Chinese term huanjing (environment or “encircling the surroundings”), a critical device for imagining the aesthetics and politics of place-making, or “the practice of environing at the margin.” The discourse of environing at the margins facilitates consideration of the modes, aesthetics, ethics, and politics of environmental inclusion and exclusion, providing a lens into the environmental thinking and practices of the world’s most populous society.

Author : Ru Et Al Shi Jnan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:692268397

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Seven Contemporary Chinese Women Writers by Ru Et Al Shi Jnan Pdf

Author : Deepika Bahri,Filippo Menozzi
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603294911

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Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women Writers by Deepika Bahri,Filippo Menozzi Pdf

Global and cosmopolitan since the late nineteenth century, anglophone South Asian women's writing has flourished in many genres and locations, encompassing diverse works linked by issues of language, geography, history, culture, gender, and literary tradition. Whether writing in the homeland or in the diaspora, authors offer representations of social struggle and inequality while articulating possibilities for resistance. In this volume experienced instructors attend to the style and aesthetics of the texts as well as provide necessary background for students. Essays address historical and political contexts, including colonialism, partition, migration, ecological concerns, and evolving gender roles, and consider both traditional and contemporary genres such as graphic novels, chick lit, and Instapoetry. Presenting ideas for courses in Asian studies, women's studies, postcolonial literature, and world literature, this book asks broadly what it means to study anglophone South Asian women's writing in the United States, in Asia, and around the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Beijing : Chinese Literature Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Chinese fiction
ISBN : 7507104370

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Contemporary Chinese Women Writers VII by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Howe
Publisher : Random House
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781448190683

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Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe Pdf

*WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2015* *WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PETERS FRASER + DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2015* There is a Chinese proverb that says: ‘It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.’ But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots. With extraordinary range and power, the poems build into a meditation on hybridity, intermarriage and love – what meaning we find in the world, in art, and in each other. Crossing the bounds of time, race and language, this is an enthralling exploration of self and place, of migration and inheritance, and introduces an unmistakable new voice in British poetry.

Author : Greta Claire Gaard,Patrick D. Murphy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252067088

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Ecofeminist Literary Criticism by Greta Claire Gaard,Patrick D. Murphy Pdf

Ecofeminist Literary Criticism is the first collection of its kind: a diverse anthology that explores both how ecofeminism can enrich literary criticism and how literary criticism can contribute to ecofeminist theory and activism. Ecofeminism is a practical movement for social change that discerns interconnections among all forms of oppression: the exploitation of nature, the oppression of women, class exploitation, racism, colonialism. Against binary divisions such as self/other, culture/nature, man/woman, humans/animals, and white/non-white, ecofeminist theory asserts that human identity is shaped by more fluid relationships and by an acknowledgment of both connection and difference. Once considered the province of philosophy and women's studies, ecofeminism in recent years has been incorporated into a broader spectrum of academic discourse. Ecofeminist Literary Criticism assembles some of the most insightful advocates of this perspective to illuminate ecofeminism as a valuable component of literary criticism.

Author : Daria Berg,Chloe Starr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134077038

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The Quest for Gentility in China by Daria Berg,Chloe Starr Pdf

The quest for gentility has shaped Chinese civilization and the formation of culture in China until the present day. This book analyzes social aspirations and cultural practices in China from 1550 to 1999, showing how the notion of gentility has evolved and retained its relevance in China from late imperial times until the modern day. Gentility denotes the way of the gentleman and gentlewoman. The concept of gentility transcends the categories of gender and class and provides important new insights into the ways Chinese men and women lived their lives, perceived their world and constructed their cultural environment. In contrast to analyses of the elite, perceptions of gentility relate to ideals, ambitions, desires, social capital, cultural sophistication, literary refinement, aesthetic appreciation, moral behaviour, femininity and gentlemanly elegance, rather than to actual status or power. Twelve international leading scholars present multi-disciplinary approaches to explore the images, artefacts and transmission of gentility across the centuries in historical and literary situations, popular and high culture, private and official documents, poetry clubs, garden culture and aesthetic guidebooks. This volume changes the ways we look at Chinese cultural history, literature, women and gender issues and offers new perspectives on Chinese sources.

Author : Daria Berg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136290213

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Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700 by Daria Berg Pdf

Exploring the works of key women writers within their cultural, artistic and socio-political contexts, this book considers changes in the perception of women in early modern China. The sixteenth century brought rapid developments in technology, commerce and the publishing industry that saw women emerging in new roles as both consumers and producers of culture. This book examines the place of women in the cultural elite and in society more generally, reconstructing examples of particular women’s personal experiences, and retracing the changing roles of women from the late Ming to the early Qing era (1580-1700). Providing rich detail of exceptionally fine, interesting and engaging literary works, this book opens fascinating new windows onto the lives, dreams, nightmares, anxieties and desires of the authors and the world out of which they emerged.