Description: Writing Women in Modern China : An Anthology of Literature from the Early Twentieth Century, Paperback by Dooling, Amy D. (EDT); Torgeson, Kristina M. (EDT), ISBN 0231107013, ISBN-13 9780231107013, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 womens writing.
The editors introduction charts key developments in the study of gender, literature, and womens writing in modern China and provides an overview of the relevant historical events of this centurys first three decades. From Qiu Jins experimental narrative Stones of the Kingwei Bird, one of the earliest fictional representations of womens liberation from the traditional Confucian family, to Bing Xins "Our Mistresss 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.
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Book Title: Writing Women in Modern China : the Revolutionary Years, 1936-1976
Item Length: 0.9in
Item Height: 0.1in
Item Width: 0.6in
Author: Amy Dooling
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Women Authors, Asian / Chinese, Asian / General, General
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, Fiction
Item Weight: 20.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
