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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feng, Jin, 1971-

Series:

Comparative cultural studies.

Comparative cultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Chinese fiction.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jin Feng proposes that representation of the "new woman" in Communist Chinese fiction of the earlier twentieth century was paradoxically one of the ways in which male writers of the era explored, negotiated, and laid claim to their own emerging identity as "modern" intellectuals.

Contents:

Cover

The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The New Woman

CHAPTER ONE Texts and Contexts of the New Woman

CHAPTER TWO Books and Mirrors: Lu Xun and "the Girl Student"

CHAPTER THREE From Girl Student to Proletarian Woman: Yu Dafu's Victimized Hero and His Female Other

CHAPTER FOUR En/gendering the Bildungsroman of the Radical Male: Ba Jin's Girl Students and Women Revolutionaries

CHAPTER FIVE The Temptation and Salvation of the Male Intellectual: Mao Dun's Women Revolutionaries

CHAPTER SIX "Sentimental Autobiographies": Feng Yuanjun, Lu Yin and the New Woman

CHAPTER SEVEN The "Bold Modern Girl": Ding Ling's Early Fiction

CHAPTER EIGHT The Revolutionary Age: Ding Ling's Fiction of the Early 1930s

EPILOGUE Ding Ling in Yan'an: A New Woman within the Party Structure?

Appendixes

Chronological List of Fiction Discussed in Each Chapter

Glossary

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC

ISBN:

1-61249-888-4

1-61249-020-4

1-4237-3336-3

OCLC:

62290236