Gender and Subjectivities in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Culture

Gender and Subjectivities in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Culture
Title Gender and Subjectivities in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Culture PDF eBook
Author P. Zhu
Publisher Springer
Total Pages 194
Release 2015-06-10
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1137514736

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Through both cultural and literary analysis, this book examines gender in relation to late Qing and modern Chinese intellectuals, including Mu Shiying, Bai Wei, and Lu Xun. Tackling important, previously neglected questions, Zhu ultimately shows the resilience and malleability of Chinese modernity through its progressive views on femininity.

Gender and Subjectivities in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Culture

Gender and Subjectivities in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Culture
Title Gender and Subjectivities in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Culture PDF eBook
Author P. Zhu
Publisher Springer
Total Pages 194
Release 2015-06-10
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1137514736

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Through both cultural and literary analysis, this book examines gender in relation to late Qing and modern Chinese intellectuals, including Mu Shiying, Bai Wei, and Lu Xun. Tackling important, previously neglected questions, Zhu ultimately shows the resilience and malleability of Chinese modernity through its progressive views on femininity.

Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society

Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society
Title Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society PDF eBook
Author Tonglin Lu
Publisher State University of New York Press
Total Pages 218
Release 1993-05-13
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1438411332

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"Only women and inferior men are difficult to deal with." — Confucius Two thousand years after Confucius, the contributors to this book ask if Chinese women have succeeded in changing their status as the equivalent of "inferior men." Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society approaches the role of women in social change through analyzing literature and culture during the May Fourth and the Post-Cultural Revolution periods.

The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction

The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction
Title The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction PDF eBook
Author Jin Feng
Publisher Purdue University Press
Total Pages 244
Release 2004
Genre History
ISBN 9781557533302

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Jin Feng proposes that representation of the "new woman" in Communist Chinese fiction of the earlier twentieth century was paradoxically one of the ways in which male writers of the era explored, negotiated, and laid claim to their own emerging identity as "modern" intellectuals.

Masculinity Besieged?

Masculinity Besieged?
Title Masculinity Besieged? PDF eBook
Author Xueping Zhong
Publisher Duke University Press
Total Pages 228
Release 2000
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780822324423

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A feminist psychoanalytic account of changing conceptions of men and masculinity as seen in recent Chinese literature.

Women’s Literary Feminism in Twentieth-Century China

Women’s Literary Feminism in Twentieth-Century China
Title Women’s Literary Feminism in Twentieth-Century China PDF eBook
Author A. Dooling
Publisher Springer
Total Pages 273
Release 2005-02-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1403978271

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This is a critical inquiry into the connections between emergent feminist ideologies in China and the production of 'modern' women's writing from the demise of the last imperial dynasty to the founding of the PRC. It accentuates both well-known and under-represented literary voices who intervened in the gender debates of their generation as well as contextualises the strategies used in imagining alternative stories of female experience and potential. It asks two questions: first, how did the advent of enlightened views of gender relations and sexuality influence literary practices of 'new women' in terms of narrative forms and strategies, readership, and publication venues? Second, how do these representations attest to the way these female intellectuals engaged and expanded social and political concerns from the personal to the national?

Revolution Plus Love

Revolution Plus Love
Title Revolution Plus Love PDF eBook
Author Liu Jianmei
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages 294
Release 2003-09-30
Genre History
ISBN 9780824825867

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In the aftermath of the May Fourth movement, a growing expectation of revolution raised important intellectual issues about the position of the individual within a society in turmoil and the shifting boundaries of political and sexual identities. The theme of "revolution plus love," a literary response to the widespread insurrections and upheaval, was first popularized in the late 1920s. In her examination of this popular but understudied literary formula, Liu Jianmei argues that revolution and love are culturally variable entities, their interplay a complex and constantly changing literary practice that is socially and historically determined. Liu looks at the formulary writing of "revolution plus love" from the 1930s to the 1970s as a case study of literary politics. Favored by leftist writers during the early period of revolutionary literature, it continued to influence mainstream Chinese literature up to the 1970s. By drawing a historical picture of the articulation and rearticulation of this theme, Liu shows how changes in revolutionary discourse force unpredictable representations of gender rules and power relations, and how women's bodies reveal the complex interactions between political representation and gender roles. Revolution Plus Love is a nuanced and carefully considered work on gender and modernity in China, unmatched in its broad use of literary resources. It will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of modern Chinese literature, women’s studies, cultural studies, and comparative literature.