Women and Writing in Modern China

by Wendy Larson

Book Overview

Analyzing the protracted cultural debate in modern China over what and how women should write, this book focuses on two concepts of great importance in Chinese literary modernization-the new, liberated woman and the new, autonomous writing.

Throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties, women's moral virtue, or de, developed as a physical ordeal that meant sacrifices in the areas of freedom of movement (seclusion in either the father's or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804731292
• ISBN13: 9780804731294
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.7"