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Once Iron Girls - Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women (Paperback)
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Once Iron Girls - Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women (Paperback)
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Available in English for the first time, Once Iron Girls: Essays on
Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women brings together
twenty-five essays by seven critically acclaimed writers, whose
fiction and poetry have become classics in modern Chinese
literature. Poetic, metaphoric, and sometimes playful and satiric,
the essays discuss the material reality wherein Chinese women live
and function. Reflecting on their experiences under Mao and in
post-Maoist China, these essays vividly demonstrate that, despite
equality of the sexes being the official position and women working
equally demanding jobs as men, women are still considered servile
to their male counterparts. Taken together, the collection shows
Chinese women struggling for identity by discussing the issues that
are important in their lives. Unlike Western feminists, they do not
want to be seen as different from their male counterparts. Nor do
they want to fall into Chinese terminology of being the same as
men. Rather, these essays show that women want to be seen first and
foremost as human and then as female. By showcasing the politics
and poetics of Chinese women's essays to an English audience, Hui
Wu's translations uncover the philosophy and purpose behind the
literature of a unique generation of Chinese women, whose life
experience finds no parallel in China and certainly not in the
West.
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