Through the lens of modern Chinese literature, "Gender Politics in
Modern China" explores the relationship between gender and
modernity, notions of the feminine and masculine, and shifting
arguments for gender equality in China.
Ranging from interviews with contemporary writers, to historical
accounts of gendered writing in Taiwan and semi-colonial China, to
close feminist readings of individual authors, these essays
confront the degree to which textual stategies construct notions of
gender. Among the specific themes discussed are: how femininity is
produced in texts by allocating women to domestic space; the extent
to which textual production lies at the base of a changing,
historically specific code of the feminine; the extent to which
women in modern Chinese societies are products of literary canons;
the ways in which the historical processes of gendering have
operated in Chinese modernity vis a vis modernity in the West; the
representation of feminists as avengers and as westernized women;
and the meager recognition of feminism as a serious intellectual
current and a large body of theory.
Originally published as a special issue of "Modern Chinese
Literature "(Spring & Fall 1988), this expanded book represents
some of the most compelling new work in post-Mao feminist
scholarship and will appeal to all those concerned with
understanding a revitalized feminism in the Chinese context.
"Contributors." Carolyn Brown, Ching-kiu Stephen Chan,
Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Yu-shih Chen, Rey Chow, Randy Kaplan,
Richard King, Wolfgang Kubin, Wendy Larson, Lydia Liu, Seung-Yeun
Daisy Ng, Jon Solomon, Meng Yue, Wang Zheng
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