When I Was Born - Women's Autobiography in Modern China (Hardcover, X, 222 Pp.)

In the period between the 1920s and 1940s, a genre emerged in Chinese literature that would reveal crucial contradictions in Chinese culture that still exist today. At a time of intense political conflict, Chinese women began to write autobiography, a genre that focused on personal identity and self-exploration rather than the national, collective identity that the country was championing. "
When "I" Was Born: Women's Autobiography in Modern China" reclaims the voices of these particular writers, voices that have been misinterpreted and overlooked for decades. Tracing women writers as they move from autobiographical fiction, often self-revelatory and personal, to explicit autobiographies that focused on women's roles in public life, Jing M. Wang reveals the factors that propelled this literary movement, the roles that liberal translators and their renditions of Western life stories played, and the way in which these women writers redefined writing and gender in the stories they told. But Wang reveals another story as well: the evolving history and identity of women in modern Chinese society. "When "I" Was Born "adds to a growing body of important work in Chinese history and culture, women's studies, and autobiography in a global context.
Writers discussed include Xie Bingying, Zhang Ailing, Yu Yinzi, Fei Pu, Lu Meiyen, Feng Heyi, Ye Qian, Bai Wei, Shi Wen, Fan Xiulin, Su Xuelin, and Lu Yin.

General

Imprint:	University of Wisconsin Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2008
First published:	April 2008
Authors:	Jing M. Wang
Series editors:	Bill Andrews
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	232
Edition:	X, 222 Pp.
ISBN-13:	978-0-299-22510-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	0-299-22510-0
Barcode:	9780299225100

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