Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism

Book Overview

Through the lens of modern Chinese literature, Gender Politics in Modern China explores the relationship between gender and modernity, notions of the feminine and masculine, and shifting arguments for gender equality in China.
Ranging from interviews with contemporary writers, to historical accounts of gendered writing in Taiwan and semi-colonial China, to close feminist readings of individual authors, these essays confront the degree to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822313898
• ISBN13: 9780822313892
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"