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Woman and Chinese Modernity

Author : Rey Chow
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452900490
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Woman and Chinese Modernity written by Rey Chow and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this era, analysis of the West has become not only possible but mandatory. Where does this analysis leave those ethnic peoples whose entry into culture is, precisely because of the history of Western imperialism, already "Westernized"? This is the primary question Rey Chow addresses in "Woman and Chinese Modernity". The author brings together a variety of texts about modern China - from Bertolucci's "Last Emperor" and the "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly" stories, to writings by male and female authors of the May Fourth period - and organizes them along four critical paths all of which involve "woman". Those include the visual image, literary history, narrative structure and emotional reception. These, in turn, allow four mutually implicated aspects of "Chinese" modernity to come to the fore - the ethnic spectator, the fragmentation of tradition in popular literature, the problematic construction of a new "inner" reality through narration, and the relations between sexuality, sentimentalism and reading.

Modern Women in China and Japan

Author : Katrina Gulliver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857721356
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Modern Women in China and Japan written by Katrina Gulliver and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of the 1930s a new empowered and liberated image of the female was taking root in popular culture in the West. This 'modern woman' archetype was also penetrating into Eastern cultures, however, challenging the Chinese and Japanese historical norm of the woman as homemaker, servant or geisha. Through a focus on the writings of the Western women who engaged with the Far East, and the Eastern writers and personalities who reacted to this new global gender communication by forming their own separate identities, Katrina Gulliver reveals the complex redefining of the self taking place in a crucial time of political and economic upheaval. Including an analysis of the work of Nobel Prize laureate Pearl S. Buck, The Modern Woman in China and Japan is an important contribution to gender studies and will appeal to historians and scholars of China and East Asia as well as to those studying Asian and American literature.

Women in the Chinese Enlightenment

Author : Zheng Wang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520922921
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Women in the Chinese Enlightenment written by Zheng Wang and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centering on five life stories by Chinese women activists born just after the turn of this century, this first history of Chinese May Fourth feminism disrupts the Chinese Communist Party's master narrative of Chinese women's liberation, reconfigures the history of the Chinese Enlightenment from a gender perspective, and addresses the question of how feminism engendered social change cross-culturally. In this multilayered book, the first-person narratives are complemented by a history of the discursive process and the author's sophisticated intertextual readings. Together, the parts form a fascinating historical portrait of how educated Chinese men and women actively deployed and appropriated ideologies from the West in their pursuit of national salvation and self-emancipation. As Wang demonstrates, feminism was embraced by men as instrumental to China's modernity and by women as pointing to a new way of life.

Chinese Woman and Modernity

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Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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The Search for Modern China

Author : Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393307801
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Search for Modern China written by Jonathan D. Spence and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history.

Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

Author : Gail Hershatter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520098560
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Women in China's Long Twentieth Century written by Gail Hershatter and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An important and much-needed introduction to this rich and fast-growing field. Hershatter has handled a daunting task with aplomb.” —Susan L. Glosser, author of Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915–1953

Everyday Modernity in China (Studies in Modernity and National Identity; A China Program Book)

Author : Madeleine Yue Dong
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295986029
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Modernity in China (Studies in Modernity and National Identity; A China Program Book) written by Madeleine Yue Dong and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays address expressions of modernity in relation to non-Western politics and national cultures. Topics range from the installation of gas streetlights in Shanghai to urban planning efforts aimed at improving daily routines of work and leisure.

Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory

Author : Rey Chow
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822380161
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory written by Rey Chow and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These groundbreaking essays use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture and, in the process, transform the definition and conceptualization of the field of modern Chinese studies itself. The wide range of topics addressed by this international group of scholars includes twentieth-century literature produced in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China; film, art, history, popular culture, and literary and cultural criticism; as well as the geographies of migration and diaspora. One of the volume’s provocative suggestions is that the old model of area studies—an offshoot of U.S. Cold War strategy that found its anchorage in higher education—is no longer feasible for the diverse and multifaceted experiences that are articulated under the rubric of “Chineseness.” As Rey Chow argues in her introduction, the notion of a monolithic Chineseness bound ultimately to mainland China is, in itself, highly problematic because it recognizes neither the material realities of ethnic minorities within China nor those of populations in places such as Tibet, Taiwan, and post–British Hong Kong. Above all, this book demonstrates that, as the terms of a chauvinistic sinocentrism become obsolete, the critical use of theory—particularly by younger China scholars whose enthusiasm for critical theory coincides with changes in China’s political economy in recent years—will enable the emergence of fresh connections and insights that may have been at odds with previous interpretive convention. Originally published as a special issue of the journal boundary 2, this collection includes two new essays and an afterword by Paul Bové that places its arguments in the context of contemporary cultural politics. It will have far-reaching implications for the study of modern China and will be of interest to scholars of theory and culture in general. Contributors. Stanley K. Abe, Ien Ang, Chris Berry, Paul Bové, Sung-cheng Yvonne Chang, Rey Chow, Dorothy Ko, Charles Laughlin, Leung Ping-kwan, Kwai-cheung Lo, Christopher Lupke, David Der-wei Wang, Michelle Yeh

The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction

Author : Jin Feng
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557533302
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction written by Jin Feng and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jin Feng proposes that representation of the "new woman" in Communist Chinese fiction of the earlier twentieth century was paradoxically one of the ways in which male writers of the era explored, negotiated, and laid claim to their own emerging identity as "modern" intellectuals.

The Modern Girl Around the World

Author : Alys Eve The Modern Girl around the World Research Group
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822389193
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Girl Around the World written by Alys Eve The Modern Girl around the World Research Group and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls wore sexy clothes and high heels; they applied lipstick and other cosmetics. Dressed in provocative attire and in hot pursuit of romantic love, Modern Girls appeared on the surface to disregard the prescribed roles of dutiful daughter, wife, and mother. Contemporaries debated whether the Modern Girl was looking for sexual, economic, or political emancipation, or whether she was little more than an image, a hollow product of the emerging global commodity culture. The contributors to this collection track the Modern Girl as she emerged as a global phenomenon in the interwar period. Scholars of history, women’s studies, literature, and cultural studies follow the Modern Girl around the world, analyzing her manifestations in Germany, Australia, China, Japan, France, India, the United States, Russia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Along the way, they demonstrate how the economic structures and cultural flows that shaped a particular form of modern femininity crossed national and imperial boundaries. In so doing, they highlight the gendered dynamics of interwar processes of racial formation, showing how images and ideas of the Modern Girl were used to shore up or critique nationalist and imperial agendas. A mix of collaborative and individually authored chapters, the volume concludes with commentaries by Kathy Peiss, Miriam Silverberg, and Timothy Burke. Contributors: Davarian L. Baldwin, Tani E. Barlow, Timothy Burke, Liz Conor, Madeleine Yue Dong, Anne E. Gorsuch, Ruri Ito, Kathy Peiss, Uta G. Poiger, Priti Ramamurthy, Mary Louise Roberts, Barbara Sato, Miriam Silverberg, Lynn M. Thomas, Alys Eve Weinbaum

Writing Women in Modern China

Author : Amy D. Dooling
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231132169
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Writing Women in Modern China written by Amy D. Dooling and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From succinct reportage of contemporary historical circumstances to comic accounts of twentieth-century urban living to carefully stylized modernist works of fiction, the selections in this anthology reflect the diversity, liveliness, humor, and surprising cosmopolitanism of women's writing from the period. This collection also reveals the ways in which women writers imagined and inscribed new meanings to Chinese feminism. Also included are biographical information on the writers, bibliographical materials, and a critical introduction by Dooling.

In the Event of Women

Author : Tani Barlow
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478021748
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book In the Event of Women written by Tani Barlow and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Event of Women outlines the stakes of what Tani Barlow calls “the event of women.” Focusing on the era of the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century's Cultural Revolution, Barlow shows that an event is a politically inspired action to install a newly discovered truth, in this case the mammal origins of human social evolution. Highbrow and lowbrow social theory circulating in Chinese urban print media placed humanity's origin story in relation to commercial capital's modern advertising industry and the conclusion that women's liberation involved selling, buying, and advertising industrial commodities. The political struggle over how the truth of women in China would be performed and understood, Barlow shows, means in part that an event of women was likely global because its truth is vested in biology and physiology. In so doing, she reveals the ways in which historical universals are effected in places where truth claims are not usually sought. This book reconsiders Alain Badiou's concept of the event; particularly the question of whose political moment marks newly discovered truths.

Gender Politics in Modern China

Author : Tani E. Barlow
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822313892
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Gender Politics in Modern China written by Tani E. Barlow and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 à 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

Chinese Modern

Author : Xiaobing Tang
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822324478
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Modern written by Xiaobing Tang and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn analysis of the Chinese experience of modernity through the literary works, films and other cultural artifacts that represent it. /div

The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism

Author : Tani Barlow
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822332701
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism written by Tani Barlow and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVBarlow documents the history of “woman” as a category in twentieth century Chinese history, tracing the question of gender through various phases in the literary career of Ding Ling, a major modern Chinese writer./div

Tales of Translation

Author : Ying Hu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804737746
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Translation written by Ying Hu and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of the New Woman, soon to become a major signpost of Chinese modernity, was in the process of being formed at the turn of the 20th century. This book shows how the construction of the New Woman was influenced by the fictional and translational representation of a range of Western female icons, including the French Revolutionary figure Madame Roland and Dumas's "Dame aux camelias.""

Sounding the Modern Woman

Author : Jean Ma
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822358657
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Sounding the Modern Woman written by Jean Ma and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning of the sound cinema era, singing actresses captivated Chinese audiences. In Sounding the Modern Woman, Jean Ma shows how their rise to stardom attests to the changing roles of women in urban modernity and the complex symbiosis between the film and music industries. The songstress—whether appearing as an opera actress, showgirl, revolutionary, or country lass—belongs to the lineage of the Chinese modern woman, and her forty year prevalence points to a distinctive gendering of lyrical expression in Chinese film. Ma guides readers through film history by way of the on and off-screen careers of many of the most compelling performers in Chinese film history, such as Zhou Xuan and Grace Chang, revealing the ways that national crises and Cold War conflict shaped their celebrity. As a bridge between the film cultures of prewar Shanghai and postwar Hong Kong, the songstress brings into view a dense web of connections linking these two periods and places that cut across the divides of war, national politics, and geography.