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Reveals the factors that propelled the literary movement of writing autobiography in China, the roles that liberal translators and their renditions of Western life stories played, and the way in which these women writers redefined writing and gender in the stories they told.

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Chinese women's autobiography reveals what stories were told and what stories were silenced. - Jing M. Wang ""These are important historical and literary materials, many of which are made available for the first time in scholarly discourse in relation to history, gender, and autobiography."" - Lingzhen Wang, Brown University ""Explores the interesting question of why women's autobiographical writing emerged at a particular period in war-torn Republican-era China, a moment when national survival was high on the agenda of politically engaged intellectuals and personal self-revelation was considered self-indulgent and irrelevant."" - Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz

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      Publisher: MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/30/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780299225100, 978-0299225100
      ISBN10: 0299225100

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Reveals the factors that propelled the literary movement of writing autobiography in China, the roles that liberal translators and their renditions of Western life stories played, and the way in which these women writers redefined writing and gender in the stories they told.

      Trade Review
      Chinese women's autobiography reveals what stories were told and what stories were silenced. - Jing M. Wang ""These are important historical and literary materials, many of which are made available for the first time in scholarly discourse in relation to history, gender, and autobiography."" - Lingzhen Wang, Brown University ""Explores the interesting question of why women's autobiographical writing emerged at a particular period in war-torn Republican-era China, a moment when national survival was high on the agenda of politically engaged intellectuals and personal self-revelation was considered self-indulgent and irrelevant."" - Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz

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