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Author: Rey Chow
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1991-01
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780816618712
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"We live in an era in which the critique of the West has become not only possible but mandatory. Where does this critique leave those peoples whose entry into culture is, precisely because of the history of Western imperialism, already Westernized? This is the primary question Rey Chow addresses in Woman and Chinese Modernity." -- Book cover.
Author: Rey Chow
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published:
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781452900490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this era, analysis of the West has become not only possible but mandatory. Where does this analysis leave those ethnic peoples whose entry into culture is, precisely because of the history of Western imperialism, already "Westernized"? This is the primary question Rey Chow addresses in "Woman and Chinese Modernity". The author brings together a variety of texts about modern China - from Bertolucci's "Last Emperor" and the "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly" stories, to writings by male and female authors of the May Fourth period - and organizes them along four critical paths all of which involve "woman". Those include the visual image, literary history, narrative structure and emotional reception. These, in turn, allow four mutually implicated aspects of "Chinese" modernity to come to the fore - the ethnic spectator, the fragmentation of tradition in popular literature, the problematic construction of a new "inner" reality through narration, and the relations between sexuality, sentimentalism and reading.
Author: Rey Chow
Publisher:
Published: 1991-01
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780816618705
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"We live in an era in which the critique of the West has become not only possible but mandatory. Where does this critique leave those peoples whose entry into culture is, precisely because of the history of Western imperialism, already Westernized? This is the primary question Rey Chow addresses in Woman and Chinese Modernity." -- Book cover.
Author: Katrina Gulliver
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-02-21
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0857721356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the dawn of the 1930s a new empowered and liberated image of the female was taking root in popular culture in the West. This 'modern woman' archetype was also penetrating into Eastern cultures, however, challenging the Chinese and Japanese historical norm of the woman as homemaker, servant or geisha. Through a focus on the writings of the Western women who engaged with the Far East, and the Eastern writers and personalities who reacted to this new global gender communication by forming their own separate identities, Katrina Gulliver reveals the complex redefining of the self taking place in a crucial time of political and economic upheaval. Including an analysis of the work of Nobel Prize laureate Pearl S. Buck, The Modern Woman in China and Japan is an important contribution to gender studies and will appeal to historians and scholars of China and East Asia as well as to those studying Asian and American literature.
Author: Zheng Wang
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1999-07-05
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0520218744
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Rarely does a reviewer or publisher encounter a milestone: this is it. It is the first major study of the development of Chinese feminism in what is arguably the most formative period in the history of modern China. In its women-centered approach, the book challenges the official women's history authored by the Chinese Communist Party and long accepted by Euro-American scholars. This book will set the agenda for future scholars researching the relationship between feminism and nationalism in China."—Dorothy Ko, author of Teachers of the Inner Chambers
Author: Madeleine Yue Dong
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780295986029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays address expressions of modernity in relation to non-Western politics and national cultures. Topics range from the installation of gas streetlights in Shanghai to urban planning efforts aimed at improving daily routines of work and leisure.
Author: A. Kipnis
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-12-18
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1137268964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of psychological anthropology.
Author: Amy D. Dooling
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780231132169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom succinct reportage of contemporary historical circumstances to comic accounts of twentieth-century urban living to carefully stylized modernist works of fiction, the selections in this anthology reflect the diversity, liveliness, humor, and surprising cosmopolitanism of women's writing from the period. This collection also reveals the ways in which women writers imagined and inscribed new meanings to Chinese feminism. Also included are biographical information on the writers, bibliographical materials, and a critical introduction by Dooling.
Author: Jin Feng
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781557533302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJin 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.
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 180
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