Imagining Sisterhood in Modern Chinese Texts, 18901937

Informationen zum Autor Yun Zhu is assistant professor of Chinese and Asian studies at Temple University. Klappentext Through the lens of the discursive reconstruction and cultural reimagining of sisterhood, this book investigates the dynamic entanglements and contestations among women, nation, and Chinese modernity. Zusammenfassung Through the lens of the discursive reconstruction and cultural reimagining of sisterhood! this book investigates the dynamic entanglements and contestations among women! nation! and Chinese modernity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Gender, Nation, Subjectivities, and the Discourse on Sisterhood in Modern ChinaChapter 1 The Emergence of the "Women's Sphere" and the Promotion of Sisterhood in the Late QingChapter 2 From Dual Slaves to Liberty Flowers: The Feminist-Nationalist Spectrum of Sisterhood in Stones of the Jingwei Bird and Chivalric BeautiesChapter 3 Is Blood Always Thicker than Water? Rival Sisters and the Tensions of ModernityChapter 4 Cosmopolitan Bourgeois Sisterhood and the Ambiguities of Female-Centeredness in Lin Loon Magazine (1931-1937)Chapter 5 Sisterly Lovers in Women's Fiction and the Potential of "Nondevelopment" as a Feminist InterventionConclusion

Product details

• Authors: Yun Zhu, Zhu Yun
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781498536295
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3629-5
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; China, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Chinese, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Feminism & feminist theory, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000