Changing Identities of Chinese Women: Rhetoric, Experience and Self-Perception in 20th Century China

by Elisabeth Croll

Interweaving memories, self-perceptions and case studies with historical data, this unique book explores the female experience of rhetoric on identity in China. While focusing on the gap between... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856493423
• ISBN13: 9781856493420
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great source

I found this book not only interesting but extremely useful. I thought it was well organized and worth reading for research or for leisure!

Understanding modern Chinese women

Elisabeth Croll is a prolific author in the area of Chinese women's studies, and proves even more so in this book. In it, she gives personal and more intimate details of women in China today, as well briefly reviewing with the reader some important points and occurences in the not so distant past. This book touches on topics that directly affect women's lives today. Namely, where are they going in the future? Women in China have gone through (literally) revolutionary changes within the past 50+ years. The most important change is in that of rhetoric itself -- Croll tells us of a common theme in women's lives -- a lot of egalitarian rhetoric with unsufficient action to implement this rhetoric through policy, etc. A great book for anyone interested in Chinese women, and the best part is, it leaves you gasping for more.