Description
Book SynopsisThrough the lens of modern Chinese literature, this title explores the relationship between gender and modernity, notions of the feminine and masculine, and shifting arguments for gender equality in China. It also features historical accounts of gendered writing in Taiwan and semi-colonial China.
Trade Review"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
Table of ContentsForeword / 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
