Personal Matters
Subtitle: Women's Autobiographical Practice in Twentieth-Century China
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: August 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780804750059
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Women's studies; 20th century; Feminist; Autobiography; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Chinese; History: World; China; Asian - Chinese; Literary Criticism / Asian / Chinese; Australia & New Zealand - General; Women and literature; Chinese literature; History and criticism; Women Authors
Description: "This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to women's autobiographical writing in twentieth-century China. The author applies feminist insights to works by such well-known authors as Qiu Jin, Bing Xin, Ding Ling, and Wang Anyi and to works by other, lesser-known writers. Throughout, these writings are analyzed in relation to the discourses of modernity - nationalism, revolution, socialism, and market commodification - that have dominated modern China."--BOOK JACKET.