Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948

ISBN-13: 9780415474580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 312 str.

Yan Haiping

Opis

Charting the literary works and life journeys of eight leading women writers in modern China, this study examines the politics and poetics of Chinese transcultural feminism within the boundaries of bourgeois feminist selfhood. It also explores the history of 20th century Chinese feminist consciousness and its centrality in the Chinese Revolution.

Spis treści

Introduction: On Empowerment  1. Unseen Rhythms, Sea Changes  2. Qiu Jin and Her Imaginary  3. The Stars of Night: Bing Xin and the Literary Constellation of the 1920s  4. Other Life: Bai Wei, Yuan Changying, and Social Dramas in the 1930s  5. War, Death, and the Art of Existence: Mobile Women in the 1940s  6. Rhythms of the Unreal [I]: Early Ding Ling and a Feminist Passage  7. Rhythms of the Unreal [II]: The Ding Ling Story and the Chinese Revolution.  Afterword: Then and Now

O autorze

Yan Haiping is University Professor of Cross-cultural Studies and the Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Media and Society at Shanghai Jiaotong University, China and Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Economy and Culture at Cornell University, USA.