Writing Women in Modern China by Amy Dooling

Writing Women in Modern China by Amy Dooling

Writing Women in Modern China is the first major anthology in English to highlight the contributions of women to modern literary culture with respect to the heated gender debates of early twentieth-century China. Featuring examples of fiction, drama, autobiography, essays, and poetry by eighteen writers, many of whom have been neglected by mainstream literary history, this collection demonstrates the creative diversity in modern women's writing. The editors' introduction charts key developments in the study of gender, literature, and women's writing in modern China and provides an overview of the relevant historical events of this century's first three decades. From Qiu Jin's experimental narrative Stones of the Kingwei Bird, one of the earliest fictional representations of women's liberation from the traditional Confucian family, to Bing Xin's "Our Mistress's Parlor," which presents a satire of an intellectual salon in 1930s Shanghai, Writing Women in Modern China offers an unrivaled opportunity to explore an important body of imaginative work.

TheWriting Women in Modern China anthology draws together some of the most exciting writing that had a formative role in bringing to the surface a female consciousness in China which challenged many perceived standards of the day-- Olivier Bruckhardt Contemporary Review The best anthology to date of feminist Chinese women's creative writing from the period 1905 to 1937... Given the importance of literature in Chinese culture, this may be the first book any college or public library should buy on the subject of modern Chinese feminism. Choice A major contribution to research and teaching in modern Chinese literature... [that] is also a great read for general readers. -- Lingzhen Wang, Brown University The China Journal

AmyD. Dooling and Kristina M. Torgeson are advanced doctoral candidates in modern Chinese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

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ISBN 13	9780231107013
ISBN 10	0231107013
Titel	Writing Women in Modern China
Autor	Amy Dooling
Serie	Modern Asian Literature Series
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Columbia University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1998-01-12
Seitenanzahl	320
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