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Imagining Sisterhood in Modern Chinese Texts, 1890-1937 (Hardcover)
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Imagining Sisterhood in Modern Chinese Texts, 1890-1937 (Hardcover)
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This book investigates sisterhood as a converging thread that wove
female subjectivities and intersubjectivities into a larger
narrative of Chinese modernity embedded in a newly conceived global
context. It focuses on the period between the late Qing reform era
around the turn of the twentieth century and the outbreak of the
Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, which saw the emergence of new
ways of depicting Chinese womanhood in various kinds of media. In a
critical hermeneutic approach, Zhu combines an examination of an
outside perspective (how narratives and images about sisterhood
were mobilized to shape new identities and imaginations) with that
of an inside perspective (how subjects saw themselves as embedded
in or affected by the discourse and how they negotiated such
experiences within texts or through writing). With its working
definition of sisterhood covering biological as well as all kinds
of symbolic and metaphysical connotations, this book exams the
literary and cultural representations of this elastic notion with
attention to, on the one hand, a supposedly collective identity
shared by all modern Chinese female subjects and, on the other
hand, the contesting modes of womanhood that were introduced
through the juxtaposition of divergent "sisters." Through an
interdisciplinary approach that brings together historical
materials, literary and cultural analysis, and theoretical
questions, Zhu conducts a careful examination of how new
identities, subjectivities and sentiments were negotiated and
mediated through the hermeneutic circuits around "sisterhood."
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