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Chen Hengzhe - A Life between Orthodoxies (Hardcover)
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Chen Hengzhe - A Life between Orthodoxies (Hardcover)
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This book takes as its starting point the life, activities, and
writings of Chen Hengzhe (1890-1976) in order to investigate the
effects of transnational experience and in particular the manner in
which different, foreign and Chinese, narratives of life were
interwoven into activities and attitudes as well as literary and
scholarly output at a time "between orthodoxies" (Jerome Grieder)
and of eclectic borrowings in search of change in most areas of
national life in China. Chen Hengzhe has been celebrated as China's
first female professor, first professor of Western history, and
first person to publish a history of the West that was not a
translation into Chinese. She is moreover celebrated as one of the
first to write fiction and poetry in the vernacular and to have
been the first to write children's literature. In 1914 she was
among the first group of women to gain a Boxer Indemnity grant to
study in America. The reiteration of these many "firsts" has led to
a rather stereotypical portrait of Chen Hengzhe in Chinese sources
and, as a result, in most Western references to her. To date we
have no critical study of her work or activities in Chinese or any
other language. Chen Hengzhe's life and textual production,
however, deserve and reward closer scholarly attention. They are
not only pertinent to analysis of developments in early
twentieth-century China; they speak to important questions in China
today. This study, then, is not a biography of a person; it is an
attempt to understand the way in which foreign influences
(narratives of being, organizing, thinking, writing) seep into a
person's life and work and meld with the "home" influences
(narratives of being, organizing, thinking, writing) to produce a
mix that cannot be predicted by any overarching "isms" or theories.
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