Writing Women in Modern China The Revolutionary Years, 1936-1976

Name: Writing Women in Modern China The Revolutionary Years, 1936-1976
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ISBN: 9780231107013

ISBN-10: 0231107013

ISBN-13: 9780231107013

Edition: 1998

Authors: Amy Dooling, Kristina Torgeson

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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…

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List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/12/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Excerpts from Stones of the Jingwei Bird




"Crisis in the Women's World"




"One Day"




"Separation"




"Lin Nan's Diary"



"Lusha - A Letter to Lu Yin"




"News From the Seashore - A Letter to Shi Pingmei"



"After Victory"




"Random Notes: Number Nine"




"The Woes of the Modern Woman"




"Intoxicated"



"Once Upon a Time"




"Harvest"




Southeast Flies the Peacock




Excerpts from War Diary




"Day"




"Woman"




Three poems




"Our Mistress's Parlor"




"Aunty Liu"




"Abandoned Child"



"A Sleepless Night"



Glossary


Supplemental Readings


Contributors