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From Beauty Fear to Beauty Fever - A Critical Study of Contemporary Chinese Female Writers (Hardcover, New edition)
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From Beauty Fear to Beauty Fever - A Critical Study of Contemporary Chinese Female Writers (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Asian Thought and Culture, 67
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From Beauty Fear to Beauty Fever: A Critical Study of Contemporary
Chinese Female Writers looks at a "glamorous" literary and cultural
moment in China at the turn of the twenty-first century, namely
that of the high-profile female writers born in the 1970s. Dubbed
as "beauty writers", they brought to light a series of literary,
cultural, and social issues at an important moment of institutional
and ideological transformation, when China was more actively
participating in the global market economy. The discourse of beauty
writers is closely related to the changing ideology from "beauty
fear" to "beauty fever". Beauty fear resulted from the
revolutionary ambition of denouncing the old institutionalized
ideologies and embracing gender equality. Beauty fever was driven
by commercialization in the mid- and late 1990s, when globalization
became the new social reality and broke the boundaries of
world/China, official/folk, and elite/mass. After years of
revolutionary policies of gender erasure, beauty fever was the
product of the intertwined narratives of resistance politics,
feminism, capitalism, consumerism, and the postmodern ludic
carnival. From Beauty Fear to Beauty Fever: A Critical Study of
Contemporary Chinese Female Writers takes an interdisciplinary
approach and reads works of female writers born in the 1970s as
both literary and social texts. Engaging in a literary and cultural
analysis to scrutinize the interface between fiction, nonfiction,
high culture, and low culture, this book explores the role that
femininity plays in the reconfiguration of writing, and unravels
the politics of gender, class, body, and technology in literary
engagement in the post-revolution era.
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