The new woman in early twentieth-century Chinese fiction / Jin Feng.

• Superior document: Comparative cultural studies
• Author: Feng, Jin, 1971-
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Comparative cultural studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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.

Table of Contents

Cover -- The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The New Woman -- CHAPTER ONE Texts and Contexts of the New Woman -- CHAPTER TWO Books and Mirrors: Lu Xun and "the Girl Student" -- CHAPTER THREE From Girl Student to Proletarian Woman: Yu Dafu's Victimized Hero and His Female Other -- CHAPTER FOUR En/gendering the Bildungsroman of the Radical Male: Ba Jin's Girl Students and Women Revolutionaries -- CHAPTER FIVE The Temptation and Salvation of the Male Intellectual: Mao Dun's Women Revolutionaries -- CHAPTER SIX "Sentimental Autobiographies": Feng Yuanjun, Lu Yin and the New Woman -- CHAPTER SEVEN The "Bold Modern Girl": Ding Ling's Early Fiction -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Revolutionary Age: Ding Ling's Fiction of the Early 1930s -- EPILOGUE Ding Ling in Yan'an: A New Woman within the Party Structure? -- Appendixes -- Chronological List of Fiction Discussed in Each Chapter -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Index.