Woman and Chinese Modernity
Title | Woman and Chinese Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Rey Chow |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 1991-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780816618712 |
"We live in an era in which the critique of the West has become not only possible but mandatory. Where does this critique leave those peoples whose entry into culture is, precisely because of the history of Western imperialism, already Westernized? This is the primary question Rey Chow addresses in Woman and Chinese Modernity." -- Book cover.
Woman and Chinese Modernity
Title | Woman and Chinese Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Rey Chow |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 230 |
Release | |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781452900490 |
In this era, analysis of the West has become not only possible but mandatory. Where does this analysis leave those ethnic peoples whose entry into culture is, precisely because of the history of Western imperialism, already "Westernized"? This is the primary question Rey Chow addresses in "Woman and Chinese Modernity". The author brings together a variety of texts about modern China - from Bertolucci's "Last Emperor" and the "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly" stories, to writings by male and female authors of the May Fourth period - and organizes them along four critical paths all of which involve "woman". Those include the visual image, literary history, narrative structure and emotional reception. These, in turn, allow four mutually implicated aspects of "Chinese" modernity to come to the fore - the ethnic spectator, the fragmentation of tradition in popular literature, the problematic construction of a new "inner" reality through narration, and the relations between sexuality, sentimentalism and reading.
Woman and Chinese Modernity
Title | Woman and Chinese Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Rey Chow |
Publisher | |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 1991-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780816618705 |
"We live in an era in which the critique of the West has become not only possible but mandatory. Where does this critique leave those peoples whose entry into culture is, precisely because of the history of Western imperialism, already Westernized? This is the primary question Rey Chow addresses in Woman and Chinese Modernity." -- Book cover.
Modern Women in China and Japan
Title | Modern Women in China and Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Katrina Gulliver |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2012-02-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857721356 |
At the dawn of the 1930s a new empowered and liberated image of the female was taking root in popular culture in the West. This 'modern woman' archetype was also penetrating into Eastern cultures, however, challenging the Chinese and Japanese historical norm of the woman as homemaker, servant or geisha. Through a focus on the writings of the Western women who engaged with the Far East, and the Eastern writers and personalities who reacted to this new global gender communication by forming their own separate identities, Katrina Gulliver reveals the complex redefining of the self taking place in a crucial time of political and economic upheaval. Including an analysis of the work of Nobel Prize laureate Pearl S. Buck, The Modern Woman in China and Japan is an important contribution to gender studies and will appeal to historians and scholars of China and East Asia as well as to those studying Asian and American literature.
Women in the Chinese Enlightenment
Title | Women in the Chinese Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Zheng Wang |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1999-07-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520218744 |
"Rarely does a reviewer or publisher encounter a milestone: this is it. It is the first major study of the development of Chinese feminism in what is arguably the most formative period in the history of modern China. In its women-centered approach, the book challenges the official women's history authored by the Chinese Communist Party and long accepted by Euro-American scholars. This book will set the agenda for future scholars researching the relationship between feminism and nationalism in China."—Dorothy Ko, author of Teachers of the Inner Chambers
Everyday Modernity in China (Studies in Modernity and National Identity; A China Program Book)
Title | Everyday Modernity in China (Studies in Modernity and National Identity; A China Program Book) PDF eBook |
Author | Madeleine Yue Dong |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780295986029 |
Essays address expressions of modernity in relation to non-Western politics and national cultures. Topics range from the installation of gas streetlights in Shanghai to urban planning efforts aimed at improving daily routines of work and leisure.
Chinese Woman and Modernity
Title | Chinese Woman and Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1996 |
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