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1 online resource (ix, 229 pages). |
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Comparative cultural studies |
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Comparative cultural studies.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Text and Context of the New Woman -- The Intellectual Self in Crisis -- The Emergence of the New Woman in Print Culture -- Footloose Woman as Topoi in vernacular Fiction -- Books and Mirrors: Lu Xun and the Girl Student -- The Performativity of Male Emotions -- Regret for the Past -- From Girl Student to Proletarian Woman: Yu Dafu?s Victimized Hero and His Female Other -- The Disenfranchised Hero in Sinking -- Venture into "Revolutionary Literature": "Intoxicating Spring Nights" -- En/gendering the Bildungsroman of the Radical Male: Ba Jin's Girl Students and Women Revolutionaries -- The New Woman to Facilitate Male Growth -- Ba Jin's Instrumental Girl Student in Family -- The Woman Revolutionary in Love Trilogy -- The Temptation and Salvation of the Male Intellectual: Mao Dun's Women Revolutionaries -- Miss Jing and Miss Hui: The Paradox of Tradition and Modernity in Eclipse -- From Wild Roses to Rainbow -- "Sentimental Autobiographies": Feng Yuanjun, Lu Yin and the New Woman -- Feng Yuanjun and the "Autobiography" of Emotions -- Lu Yin and Her Self-Corrections -- The Bold Modern Girl: Ding Ling's Early Fiction -- Ding Ling and the New Woman -- Diary of a Lonely Urban Dweller: "Miss Sophia's Diary" -- The Woman Writer in "Yecao" -- The Revolutionary Age: Ding Ling's Fiction of the Early 1930s -- "Sophia's Diary (II)" -- "From Night to Dawn" -- "Tianjia village." |
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Print version record. |
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| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
In The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction, Jin Feng discusses representations of women in May Fourth fiction, issues of gender, modernity, individualism, subjectivity, and narrative strategy. In this thought-provoking book about a crucial period of Chinese literature, Feng argues that male writers such as Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, Ba Jin, and Mao Dun created fictional women as mirror images of their own political inadequacy, but that at the same time this was also an egocentric ploy to affirm and highlight the modernity of the male author. This gender-biased attitude was translated into reality when women writers emerged. Whereas unfair, gender-biased criticism all but stifled the creative output of Bing Xin, Fang Yuanjun, and Lu Yin, Ding Ling's dogged attention to narrative strategy allowed her to maintain subjectivity and independence in her writings; that is until all writers were forced to write for the collective. |
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English. |
| Subject |
Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Women in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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Chinese fiction. (OCoLC)fst00857362
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Women in literature. (OCoLC)fst01177912
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Title |
New woman in early 20th century Chinese fiction |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Feng, Jin, 1971- New woman in early twentieth-century Chinese fiction. West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, 2004 155753330X (DLC) 2004000626 (OCoLC)54024090 |
| ISBN |
1423733363 (electronic book) |
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9781423733362 (electronic book) |
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9781557533302 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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155753330X (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9781612498881 (electronic book) |
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1612498884 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
9781557533302 |
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