Imagining Sisterhood in Modern Chinese Texts, 1890-1937

by Yun Zhu

This book investigates sisterhood as a converging thread that wove female subjectivities and intersubjectivities into a larger narrative of Chinese modernity embedded in a newly conceived global context. It focuses on the period between the late Qing reform era around the turn of the twentieth century and the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, which saw the emergence of new ways of depicting Chinese womanhood in various kinds of media...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498536298
• ISBN13: 9781498536295
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"