Gender Politics in Modern China

• Foreword / Howard Goldblatt Introduction / Tani E. Barlow The Language of Despair: Ideological Representations of the "New Woman" by May Fourth Writers / Ching-kiu Stephen Chan Invention and Intervention: The Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature / Lydia H. Liu The End of "Funu Wenxue": Women's Literature from 1925 to 1935 / Wendy Larson Woman as Trope: Gender and Power in Lu Xun's "Soap" / Carolyn T. Brown Virtuous Transactions: A Reading of Three Short Stories by Ling Shuhua / Rey Chow Images of Subjugation and Defiance: Female Characters in the Early Dramas of Tian Han / Randy Kaplan Female Images and National Myth / Meng Yue Writing with Your Body: Literature as a Wound--Remarks on the Poetry of Shu Ting / Wolfgang Kubin Harmony and Equality: Notes on "Mimosa" and "Ark" / Chen Yu-shih Three Interviews: Wang Anyi, Zhu Lin, Dai Qing / Wang Zheng In the Translator's Eye: On the Significance of Zhu Lin / Richard King Yuan Qiongqiong and the Rage for Eileen Zhang among Taiwan's Feminine Writers / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang Taking Tiger Mountain: Can Xue's Resistance and Cultural Critique / Jon Solomon Feminism in the Chinese Context: Li Ang's The Butcher's Wife / Sheung-Yuen Daisy Ng Political Evaluation and Reevaluation in Contemporary Chinese Fiction / Margaret H. Decker Contributors Index

"Among Western critical approaches, feminist criticism offers the most exciting promise, both for raising the level of critical analysis of Chinese texts, and for testing Western theories as they are applied cross-culturally. Gender Politics in Modern China provides convincing evidence of what can be done."-Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker, University of Michigan "Theoretically informed and sophisticated, the essays in this volume relflect some of the most creative and intelligent readings of twentieth-century Chinese fiction being produced in a number of venues. Taken as a group, they illustrate the variety of ways in which gender has been deployed by modern Chinese writers as textual and political strategy."-Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz