Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948

By: Haiping Yan

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Paperback | 1 May 2008 | Edition Number 1

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Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948 provides a compelling study of leading women writers in modern China, charting their literary works and life journeys to examine the politics and poetics of Chinese transcultural feminism that exceed the boundaries of bourgeois feminist selfhood.

Unlike recent literary studies that focus on the discursive formation of the modern Chinese nation state and its gendering effects, Haiping Yan explores the radical degrees to which Chinese women writers re-invented their lives alongside their writings in distinctly conditioned and fundamentally revolutionary ways.

The book draws on these women's voluminous works and dramatic lives to illuminate the range of Chinese women's literary and artistic achievements and offers vital sources for exploring the history and legacy of twentieth-century Chinese feminist consciousness and its centrality in the Chinese Revolution. It will be of great interest to scholars of gender studies, literary and cultural studies and performance studies.

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'Yan carefully balances historical inquiry and literary criticism to highlight the ways in which the writers aspired to overcome many of the pressures bearing on contemporary Chinese women ... "Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination" is an important complement to recent works by Tani Barlow and Nicole Huang.' - Norman Smith, "Pacific Affairs", Winter 2006

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Preface	p. xii
Introduction: On Empowerment	p. 1
Unseen Rhythms, Sea Changes	p. 12
Qiu Jin and Her Imaginary	p. 33
The Stars of Night	p. 69
Other Life	p. 100
War, Death, and the Art of Existence	p. 135
Rhythms of the Unreal (I)	p. 168
Rhythms of the Unreal (II)	p. 200
Afterword: Then and Now	p. 241
Notes	p. 243
Index	p. 290
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