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Women’s Literary Feminism in Twentieth-Century China

Author : A. Dooling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403978271

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Women’s Literary Feminism in Twentieth-Century China by A. Dooling Pdf

This is a critical inquiry into the connections between emergent feminist ideologies in China and the production of 'modern' women's writing from the demise of the last imperial dynasty to the founding of the PRC. It accentuates both well-known and under-represented literary voices who intervened in the gender debates of their generation as well as contextualises the strategies used in imagining alternative stories of female experience and potential. It asks two questions: first, how did the advent of enlightened views of gender relations and sexuality influence literary practices of 'new women' in terms of narrative forms and strategies, readership, and publication venues? Second, how do these representations attest to the way these female intellectuals engaged and expanded social and political concerns from the personal to the national?

Feminism/femininity in Chinese Literature

Author : Huihua Chen,Whitney Crothers Dilley
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Chinese fiction
ISBN : 9042007273

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Feminism/femininity in Chinese Literature by Huihua Chen,Whitney Crothers Dilley Pdf

The present volume of Critical Studies is a collection of selected essays on the topic of feminism and femininity in Chinese literature. Although feminism has been a hot topic in Chinese literary circles in recent years, this remarkable collection represents one of the first of its kind to be published in English. The essays have been written by well-known scholars and feminists including Kang-I Sun Chang of Yale University, and Li Ziyun, a writer and feminist in Shanghai, China. The essays are inter- and multi-disciplinary, covering several historical periods in poetry and fiction (from the Ming-Qing periods to the twentieth century). In particular, the development of women s writing in the New Period (post-1976) is examined in depth. The articles thus offer the reader a composite and broad perspective of feminism and the treatment of the female in Chinese literature. As this remarkable new collection attests, the voices of women in China have begun calling out loudly, in ways that challenge prevalent views about the Chinese female persona."

Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China

Author : Qiliang He
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319896922

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Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China by Qiliang He Pdf

Feminism, Women’s Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China focuses on a sensational elopement in the Yangzi Delta in the late 1920s to explore how middle- and lower-class members of society gained access to and appropriated otherwise alien and abstract enlightenment theories and idioms about love, marriage, and family. Via a network of communications that connected people of differing socioeconomic and educational backgrounds, non-elite women were empowered to display their new womanhood and thereby exercise their self-activating agency to mount resistance to China’s patriarchal system. Qiliang He’s text also investigates the proliferation of anti-feminist conservatisms in legal practice, scholarly discourses, media, and popular culture in the early Nanjing Decade (1927-1937). Utilizing a framework of interdisciplinary scholarship, this book traverses various fields such as legal history, women’s history, popular culture/media studies, and literary studies to explore urban discourse and communication in 1920s China.

Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society

Author : Tonglin Lu
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791413713

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Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society by Tonglin Lu Pdf

"Only women and inferior men are difficult to deal with." -- Confucius Two thousand years after Confucius, the contributors to this book ask if Chinese women have succeeded in changing their status as the equivalent of "inferior men." Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society approaches the role of women in social change through analyzing literature and culture during the May Fourth and the Post-Cultural Revolution periods.

Writing Women in Modern China

Author : Amy D. Dooling,Kristina M. Torgeson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231107013

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Writing Women in Modern China by Amy D. Dooling,Kristina M. Torgeson Pdf

The past few years have seen a burgeoning effort to rethink questions of women, writing, and gender in modern China. Here 22 works of fiction, drama, autobiography, essays, and poetry, each prefaced by the author's photograph and a short biographical sketch, introduce women whose literary careers coincided with an era of tremendous social, political, and cultural turbulence. 18 illustrations.

Gender and Subjectivities in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Culture

Author : P. Zhu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137514738

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Gender and Subjectivities in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Culture by P. Zhu Pdf

Through both cultural and literary analysis, this book examines gender in relation to late Qing and modern Chinese intellectuals, including Mu Shiying, Bai Wei, and Lu Xun. Tackling important, previously neglected questions, Zhu ultimately shows the resilience and malleability of Chinese modernity through its progressive views on femininity.

Gender Politics in Modern China

Author : Tani E. Barlow
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822313898

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Gender Politics in Modern China by Tani E. Barlow Pdf

Through the lens of modern Chinese literature, Gender Politics in Modern China explores the relationship between gender and modernity, notions of the feminine and masculine, and shifting arguments for gender equality in China. Ranging from interviews with contemporary writers, to historical accounts of gendered writing in Taiwan and semi-colonial China, to close feminist readings of individual authors, these essays confront the degree to which textual stategies construct notions of gender. Among the specific themes discussed are: how femininity is produced in texts by allocating women to domestic space; the extent to which textual production lies at the base of a changing, historically specific code of the feminine; the extent to which women in modern Chinese societies are products of literary canons; the ways in which the historical processes of gendering have operated in Chinese modernity vis à vis modernity in the West; the representation of feminists as avengers and as westernized women; and the meager recognition of feminism as a serious intellectual current and a large body of theory. Originally published as a special issue of Modern Chinese Literature (Spring & Fall 1988), this expanded book represents some of the most compelling new work in post-Mao feminist scholarship and will appeal to all those concerned with understanding a revitalized feminism in the Chinese context. Contributors. Carolyn Brown, Ching-kiu Stephen Chan, Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Yu-shih Chen, Rey Chow, Randy Kaplan, Richard King, Wolfgang Kubin, Wendy Larson, Lydia Liu, Seung-Yeun Daisy Ng, Jon Solomon, Meng Yue, Wang Zheng

Women and Writing in Modern China

Author : Wendy Larson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780804731294

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Women and Writing in Modern China by Wendy Larson Pdf

Using a theoretical approach that utilizes work in literary studies, anthropology, feminist theory, and cultural studies, this book investigates how, in twentieth century China, the modern concepts of the new woman and the new writing developed into a protracted cultural debate over what and how women should and could write.

Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948

Author : Haiping Yan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134570881

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

Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948 provides a compelling study of leading women writers in modern China, charting their literary works and life journeys to examine the politics and poetics of Chinese transcultural feminism that exceed the boundaries of bourgeois feminist selfhood. Unlike recent literary studies that focus on the discursive formation of the modern Chinese nation state and its gendering effects, Haiping Yan explores the radical degrees to which Chinese women writers re-invented their lives alongside their writings in distinctly conditioned and fundamentally revolutionary ways. The book draws on these women's voluminous works and dramatic lives to illuminate the range of Chinese women's literary and artistic achievements and offers vital sources for exploring the history and legacy of twentieth-century Chinese feminist consciousness and its centrality in the Chinese Revolution. It will be of great interest to scholars of gender studies, literary and cultural studies and performance studies.

New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction

Author : Jin Feng
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781612498874

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New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction by Jin Feng Pdf

In The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction, Jin Feng proposes that representation of the "new woman" in Communist Chinese fiction of the earlier twentieth century was paradoxically one of the ways in which male writers of the era explored, negotiated, and laid claim to their own emerging identity as "modern" intellectuals. Specifically, Feng argues that male writers such as Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, Ba Jin, and Mao Dun created fictional women as mirror images of their own political inadequacy, but that at the same time this was also an egocentric ploy to affirm and highlight the modernity of the male author. This gender-biased attitude was translated into reality when women writers emerged. Whereas unfair, gender-biased criticism all but stifled the creative output of Bing Xin, Fang Yuanjun, and Lu Yin, Ding Ling's dogged attention to narrative strategy allowed her to maintain subjectivity and independence in her writings; that is until all writers were forced to write for the collective. Feng addresses both the general and the specialized audience of fiction in early-twentieth-century Chinese fiction in three ways: for scholars of the May Fourth period, Feng redresses the emphasis on the simplistic, gender-neutral representation of the new women by re-reading selected texts in the light of marginalized discourse and by an analysis of the evolving strategies of narrative deployment; for those working in the area of feminism and literary studies, Feng develops a new method of studying the representation of Chinese women through an interrogation of narrative permutations, ideological discourses, and gender relationships; and for studies of modernity and modernization, the author presents a more complex picture of the relationships of modern Chinese intellectuals to their cultural past and of women writers to a literary tradition dominated by men.

Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

Author : Gail Hershatter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520916128

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Women in China's Long Twentieth Century by Gail Hershatter Pdf

This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women’s history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the process, Hershatter offers keen analytic insights and judgments about the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields. The result is both a practical bibliographic tool and a thoughtful reflection on how we approach the past.

The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism

Author : Tani Barlow
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822385394

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The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism by Tani Barlow Pdf

The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism is a history of thinking about the subject of women in twentieth-century China. Tani E. Barlow illustrates the theories and conceptual categories that Enlightenment Chinese intellectuals have developed to describe the collectivity of women. Demonstrating how generations of these theorists have engaged with international debates over eugenics, gender, sexuality, and the psyche, Barlow argues that as an Enlightenment project, feminist debate in China is at once Chinese and international. She reads social theory, psychoanalytic thought, literary criticism, ethics, and revolutionary political ideologies to illustrate the range and scope of Chinese feminist theory’s preoccupation with the problem of gender inequality. She reveals how, throughout the cataclysms of colonial modernity, revolutionary modernization, and market socialism, prominent Chinese feminists have gathered up the remainders of the past and formed them into social and ethical arguments, categories, and political positions, ceaselessly reshaping progressive Enlightenment sexual liberation theory.

Twentieth-century Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology

Author : Julia C. Lin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317453192

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Twentieth-century Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology by Julia C. Lin Pdf

Chinese women's writing is rich and abundant, although not well known in the West. Despite the brutal wars and political upheavals that ravaged twentieth-century China, the ranks of women in the literary world increased dramatically. This anthology introduces English language readers to a comprehensive selection of Chinese women poets from both the mainland and Taiwan. It spans the early 1920s and the era of Republican China's literary renaissance through the end of the twentieth century. The collection includes 245 poems by forty poets in elegant English translations, as well as an extensive introduction that surveys the history of contemporary Chinese women's poetry. Brief biographical head notes introduce each poet, from Bin Xin, China's preeminent woman poet in the early Republican period, to Rongzi, a leading poet of modern Taiwan. The selections are startling, moving, and wide-ranging in mood and tone. Together they present an enticing palette of delightful, elegant, playful, lyric, and tragic poetry.

Writing Women in Modern China

Author : Amy D. Dooling
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231132174

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Writing Women in Modern China by Amy D. Dooling Pdf

From succinct reportage of contemporary historical circumstances to comic accounts of twentieth-century urban living to carefully stylized modernist works of fiction, the selections in this anthology reflect the diversity, liveliness, humor, and surprising cosmopolitanism of women's writing from the period. This collection also reveals the ways in which women writers imagined and inscribed new meanings to Chinese feminism. Also included are biographical information on the writers, bibliographical materials, and a critical introduction by Dooling.

Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century China

Author : Paul J. Bailey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137029683

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Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century China by Paul J. Bailey Pdf

Paul J. Bailey provides the first analytical study in English of Chinese women's experiences during China's turbulent twentieth century. Incorporating the very latest specialized research, and drawing upon Chinese cinema and autobiographical memoirs, this fascinating narrative account: - Explores the impact of political, social and cultural change on women's lives, and how Chinese women responded to such developments - Charts the evolution of gender discourses during this period - Illuminates both change and continuity in gender discourse and practice Approachable and authoritative, this is an essential overview for students, teachers and scholars of gender history, and anyone with an interest in modern Chinese history.