Writing Women in Modern China The Revolutionary Years, 1936-1976 |
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Author:
| Dooling, Amy |
Editor:
| Dooling, Amy Torgeson, Kristina |
Series title: | Weatherhead Books on Asia Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-231-13217-6 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2005 |
Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $38.00 |
Book Description:
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From succinct reportage of contemporary historical circumstances to comic accounts of twentieth-century urban living to carefully stylized modernist works of fiction, the selections in this anthology reflect the diversity, liveliness, humor, and surprising cosmopolitanism of women's writing from the period. This collection also reveals the ways in which women writers imagined and inscribed new meanings to Chinese feminism. Also included are biographical information on the writers,...
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From succinct reportage of contemporary historical circumstances to comic accounts of twentieth-century urban living to carefully stylized modernist works of fiction, the selections in this anthology reflect the diversity, liveliness, humor, and surprising cosmopolitanism of women's writing from the period. This collection also reveals the ways in which women writers imagined and inscribed new meanings to Chinese feminism. Also included are biographical information on the writers, bibliographical materials, and a critical introduction by Dooling.