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Women, war, domesticity : Shanghai literature and popular culture of the 1940s / by Nicole Huang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huang, Xincun, 1967-
- Series:
- China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 6.
- China studies, 1570-1344 ; 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women authors, Chinese--China--Shanghai.
- Women authors, Chinese.
- Popular culture--China--Shanghai.
- Popular culture.
- China--History--1937-1945.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (286 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Shanghai literature and popular culture of the 1940s
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book studies a burgeoning middlebrow culture championed and sustained by a group of women writers, editors, and publishers who began their careers in Shanghai in the early 1940's when the city entered into an era of total occupation by the Japanese.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Prologue - Travels of Scarlett O'Hara; Chapter One - Introduction: Written in the Ruins; Chapter Two - Fashioning Public Intellectuals: The Emergence of a Women's Print Culture; Chapter Three - Image Studios: The Art of a Women's Magazine; Chapter Four - Written on Water: Eileen Chang and the Modern Essay; Chapter Five - Ethnographies of Wartime: Autobiographical Fiction by Su Qing and Pan Liudai; Chapter Six - Garden of the Ruins: Shi Jimei's Domestic Fiction; Epilogue - Travels of Eileen Chang; Plates; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-271) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-86758-2
- 9786610867585
- 1-4294-5270-6
- 90-474-0693-1
- 1-4337-0610-5
- OCLC:
- 476024779
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