Feminism/femininity in Chinese literature / / edited by Peng-hsiang Chen, Whitney Crothers Dilley.

• Superior document: Critical Studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Chen, Huihua, 1942-; Dilley, Whitney Crothers,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2002]; 2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 219 pages)
• Other title: INTRODUCTION /; MING-QINGWOMEN POETS AND CULTURAL ANDROGYNY /; WOMEN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS COUNTER-DISCOURSE: THE CASES OF DOROTHY LIVESAY AND YU LOUJIN /; REJECTION OF POSTMODERN ABANDON: ZHU TIANWEN’S FIN-DE-SIÈCLE SPLENDOR /; IDENTITY POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S NOVELS IN TAIWAN /; MAN INWOMAN’S VOICE AND VICE VERSA: THE CHINESE AND ENGLISH FEMALE-PERSONA LYRICS—A RESPONSE TO SOME CONCEPTS IN FEMINIST CRITICISM /; FEMALE IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ANDWESTERN LITERATURE: ZHANG XINXIN AND VIRGINIAWOOLF /; RESISTING WHILE HOLDING THE TRADITION—CLAIMS FOR RIGHT RAISED IN LITERATURE BY CHINESEWOMENWRITERS IN THE NEW PERIOD /; THE DISAPPEARANCE AND REVIVAL OF FEMININE DISCOURSE /; CASTRATION PARODY AND MALE ‘CASTRATION’: EILEEN CHANG’S FEMALEWRITING AND HER ANTI-PATRIARCHAL STRATEGY /; FILMIC TRANSPOSITION OF THE ROSES: STANLEY KWAN’S FEMININE RESPONSE TO EILEEN CHANG’SWOMEN /; SEX HISTORIES: ZHANG JINGSHENG’S SEXUAL REVOLUTION /; IBSENISM AND IDEOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE ‘NEWWOMAN’ IN MODERN CHINESE FICTION /; LITERARY CALLS FROMWOMEN NOVELISTS /; FEMINIST THEORY AND CONTEMPORARY CHINESE FEMALE LITERATURE /; BIBLIOGRAPHY /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.; "Bibliography of feminism and Chinese literature": (p. [211]-219).
• ISBN: 9004333983
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Peng-hsiang Chen, Whitney Crothers Dilley.

The present volume of Critical Studies is a collection of selected essays on the topic of feminism and femininity in Chinese literature. Although feminism has been a hot topic in Chinese literary circles in recent years, this remarkable collection represents one of the first of its kind to be published in English. The essays have been written by well-known scholars and feminists including Kang-I Sun Chang of Yale University, and Li Ziyun, a writer and feminist in Shanghai, China. The essays are inter- and multi-disciplinary, covering several historical periods in poetry and fiction (from the Ming-Qing periods to the twentieth century). In particular, the development of women’s writing in the New Period (post-1976) is examined in depth. The articles thus offer the reader a composite and broad perspective of feminism and the treatment of the female in Chinese literature. As this remarkable new collection attests, the voices of women in China have begun calling out loudly, in ways that challenge prevalent views about the Chinese female persona.