{"product_id":"gender-politics-in-modern-china-9780822313762","title":"Gender Politics in Modern China","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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. \u003ci\u003eGender Politics in Modern China\u003c\/i\u003e provides convincing evidence of what can be done.\"—Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword \/ Howard Goldblatt \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Tani E. Barlow \u003cbr\u003e The Language of Despair: Ideological Representations of the \"New Woman\" by May Fourth Writers \/ Ching-kiu Stephen Chan \u003cbr\u003e Invention and Intervention: The Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature \/ Lydia H. Liu \u003cbr\u003e The End of \"Funu Wenxue\": Women's Literature from 1925 to 1935 \/ Wendy Larson \u003cbr\u003e Woman as Trope: Gender and Power in Lu Xun's \"Soap\" \/ Carolyn T. Brown \u003cbr\u003e Virtuous Transactions: A Reading of Three Short Stories by Ling Shuhua \/ Rey Chow \u003cbr\u003e Images of Subjugation and Defiance: Female Characters in the Early Dramas of Tian Han \/ Randy Kaplan \u003cbr\u003e Female Images and National Myth \/ Meng Yue \u003cbr\u003e Writing with Your Body: Literature as a Wound--Remarks on the Poetry of Shu Ting \/ Wolfgang Kubin \u003cbr\u003e Harmony and Equality: Notes on \"Mimosa\" and \"Ark\" \/ Chen Yu-shih \u003cbr\u003e Three Interviews: Wang Anyi, Zhu Lin, Dai Qing \/ Wang Zheng \u003cbr\u003e In the Translator's Eye: On the Significance of Zhu Lin \/ Richard King \u003cbr\u003e Yuan Qiongqiong and the Rage for Eileen Zhang among Taiwan's \u003ci\u003eFeminine\u003c\/i\u003e Writers \/ Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang \u003cbr\u003e Taking Tiger Mountain: Can Xue's Resistance and Cultural Critique \/ Jon Solomon \u003cbr\u003e Feminism in the Chinese Context: Li Ang's \u003ci\u003eThe Butcher's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Sheung-Yuen Daisy Ng \u003cbr\u003e Political Evaluation and Reevaluation in Contemporary Chinese Fiction \/ Margaret H. Decker \u003cbr\u003e Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406013636951,"sku":"9780822313762","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822313762.jpg?v=1730494243","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gender-politics-in-modern-china-9780822313762","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}