The Family Revolution in Modern China
Title | The Family Revolution in Modern China PDF eBook |
Author | Marion Joseph Levy |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 420 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |
The Family Revolution in Modern China
Title | The Family Revolution in Modern China PDF eBook |
Author | Marion J. Levy |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 390 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |
The Family Revolution in Modern China
Title | The Family Revolution in Modern China PDF eBook |
Author | Jr. Marion J. Levy |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 1949-01-01 |
Genre | China |
ISBN | 9780674181120 |
Voices in Revolution
Title | Voices in Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Crespi |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 2009-07-29 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0824833651 |
China’s century of revolutionary change has been heard as much as seen, and nowhere is this more evident than in an auditory history of the modern Chinese poem. From Lu Xun’s seminal writings on literature to a recitation renaissance in urban centers today, poetics meets politics in the sounding voice of poetry. Supported throughout by vivid narration and accessible analysis, Voices in Revolution offers a literary history of modern China that makes the case for the importance of the auditory dimension of poetry in national, revolutionary, and postsocialist culture. Crespi brings the past to life by first examining the ideological changes to poetic voice during China’s early twentieth-century transition from empire to nation. He then traces the emergence of the spoken poem from the May Fourth period to the present, including its mobilization during the Anti-Japanese War, its incorporation into the student protest repertoire during China’s civil war, its role as a conflicted voice of Mao-era revolutionary passion, and finally its current adaptation to the cultural life of China’s party-guided market economy. Voices in Revolution alters the way we read by moving poems off the page and into the real time and space of literary activity. To all readers it offers an accessible yet conceptually fresh and often dramatic narration of China’s modern literary experience. Specialists will appreciate the book’s inclusion of noncanonical texts as well as its innovative interdisciplinary approach.
The Consumer Revolution in Urban China
Title | The Consumer Revolution in Urban China PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Davis |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 2000-01-20 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780520216402 |
This wide-ranging collection of essays by leading sociologists on the new consumerism of post-economic-reform China is an important contribution to our understanding of Chinese society and culture.
Family Revolution
Title | Family Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Hui Faye Xiao |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 2014-04-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 029580498X |
As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution—an overhaul of family structure, marital practices, and gender relationships. While the nuclear family has become a privileged realm of romance and individualism symbolizing the post-revolutionary “freedoms” of economic and affective autonomy, women’s roles in particular have been transformed, with the ideal “iron girl” of socialism replaced by the feminine, family-oriented “good wife and wise mother.” Problems and contradictions in this new domestic culture have been exposed by China's soaring divorce rate. Reading popular “divorce narratives” in fiction, film, and TV drama, Hui Faye Xiao shows that the representation of marital discord has become a cultural battleground for competing ideologies within post-revolutionary China. While these narratives present women’s cultivation of wifely and maternal qualities as the cure for family disintegration and social unrest, Xiao shows that they in fact reflect a problematic resurgence of traditional gender roles and a powerful mode of control over supposedly autonomous private life.
Return to the Middle Kingdom
Title | Return to the Middle Kingdom PDF eBook |
Author | Yuan-tsung Chen |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | 436 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781402756979 |
The author chronicles three generations of her late husband's family, all of who fought against the injustices they encountered in their homeland of China.