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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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| 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." |
| Summary |
"In The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction, Jin 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. Specifically, 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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"Feng addresses both the general and the specialized audience of fiction in early-twentieth-century Chinese fiction in three ways: for scholars of the May Fourth period, Feng redresses the emphasis on the simplistic, gender-neutral representation of the new women by re-reading selected texts in the light of marginalized discourse and by an analysis of the evolving strategies of narrative deployment; for those working in the area of feminism and literary studies, Feng develops a new method of studying the representation of Chinese women through an interrogation of narrative permutations, ideological discourses, and gender relationships; and for studies of modernity and modernization, the author presents a more complex picture of the relationships of modern Chinese intellectuals to their cultural past and of women writers to a literary tradition dominated by men"--Publisher's description |
| Analysis |
"Multi-User" |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- Political aspects
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Sexism and literature -- China -- History -- 20th century
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Women in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women
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Chinese fiction
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Women in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1423733363 |
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9781423733362 |
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9781557533302 |
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155753330X |
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9781612490205 |
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1612490204 |
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9781612498881 |
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1612498884 |
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