Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

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"Only women and inferior men are difficult to deal with." - ConfuciusTwo 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.

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Utgivningsdatum1993-06-04
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt308 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
Antal sidor204
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791413722

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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Against the Lures of Disapora: Minority Discourse, Chinese Women, and Intellectual HegemonyRey Chow 2. Gendering the Origins of Modern Chinese FictionYue Ming-Bao 3. The Language of Desire, Class, and Subjectivity in Lu Ling's FictionLiu Kang 4. Liu Heng's Fuxi Fuxi: What about Nuwa?Marie-Claire Huot 5. Rape as Castration as Spectacle: The Price of Frenzy's Politics of ConfusionElissa Rashkin 6. A Brave New World? On the Construction of "Masculinity" and "Femininity" in The Red Sorghum FamilyZhu Ling 7. Femininity as Imprisonment: Subjectivity, Agency, and Criminality in Ai Bei's FictionMargaret H. Decker 8. Sisterhood?: Representation of Women's Relationahips in Two Contemporary Chinese TextsZhong Xueping 9. Can Xue: What Is So Paranoid in Her Writings?Tonglin Lu

"I believe this to be a path-breaking book in its overall contribution. The scholarship is sound, the presentations (intepretations) are interesting, and the book raises questions of import for both the specialist and the general reader. Aside from an earlier book by one of the contributors (Rey Chow), I can think of no other book in the field of modern Chinese studies that offers with the sharpness that this book does feminist perspectives on modern Chinese literature and, going a bit further, on our appreciation of modern China in general." — Arif Dirlik, Duke University