Research Catalog

Title

The new woman in early twentieth-century Chinese fiction / Jin Feng.

Author

Feng, Jin, 1971-

Publication

West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

ix, 229 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Jin Feng addresses both the general and the specialized audience of fiction in early-twentieth-century Chinese fiction in three ways: for scholars of the May Fourth period, Feng redresses the emphasis on the simplistic, gender-neutral representation of the new woman by rereading selected texts in the light of marginalized discourse and by an analysis of the evolving strategies of narrative development; for those working in the area of feminism and literary studies, Feng develops a new method of studying the representation of Chinese women through an interrogation of narrative permutations, ideological discourses, and gender relationships; and for studies of modernity and modernization, the author presents a more complex picture of the relationships of modern Chinese intellectuals to their cultural past and of women writers to a literary tradition dominated by men."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Comparative cultural studies ; 5

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Comparative cultural studies 5.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1920-1930
• Chinese fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Women in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-226) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Text and Context of the New Woman -- The Intellectual Self in Crisis -- The Emergence of the New Woman in Print Culture -- Footloose Woman as Topoi in vernacular Fiction -- Books and Mirrors: Lu Xun and the Girl Student -- The Performativity of Male Emotions -- Regret for the Past -- From Girl Student to Proletarian Woman: Yu Dafu?s Victimized Hero and His Female Other -- The Disenfranchised Hero in Sinking -- Venture into "Revolutionary Literature": "Intoxicating Spring Nights" -- En/gendering the Bildungsroman of the Radical Male: Ba Jin's Girl Students and Women Revolutionaries -- The New Woman to Facilitate Male Growth -- Ba Jin's Instrumental Girl Student in Family -- The Woman Revolutionary in Love Trilogy -- The Temptation and Salvation of the Male Intellectual: Mao Dun's Women Revolutionaries -- Miss Jing and Miss Hui: The Paradox of Tradition and Modernity in Eclipse -- From Wild Roses to Rainbow -- "Sentimental Autobiographies": Feng Yuanjun, Lu Yin and the New Woman -- Feng Yuanjun and the "Autobiography" of Emotions -- Lu Yin and Her Self-Corrections -- The Bold Modern Girl: Ding Ling's Early Fiction -- Ding Ling and the New Woman -- Diary of a Lonely Urban Dweller: "Miss Sophia's Diary" -- The Woman Writer in "Yecao" -- The Revolutionary Age: Ding Ling's Fiction of the Early 1930s -- "Sophia's Diary (II)" -- "From Night to Dawn" -- "Tianjia village."

ISBN

155753330X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004000626

OCLC

• 54024090
• SCSB-12170293

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library