The new woman in early twentieth-century Chinese fiction
By: Jin Feng
Series: Comparative cultural studies -- 6
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: West Lafayette, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Women in literature
Description: "Jin Feng addresses both the general and the specialized audience of fiction in early-twentieth-century Chinese fiction in three ways: for scholars of the May Fourth period, Feng redresses the emphasis on the simplistic, gender-neutral representation of the new woman by rereading selected texts in the light of marginalized discourse and by an analysis of the evolving strategies of narrative development; for those working in the area of feminism and literary studies, Feng develops a new method of studying the representation of Chinese women through an interrogation of narrative permutations, ideological discourses, and gender relationships; and for studies of modernity and modernization, the author presents a more complex picture of the relationships of modern Chinese intellectuals to their cultural past and of women writers to a literary tradition dominated by men."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-226) and index