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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“Zhu’s monograph makes an important and original contribution to the study of modern Chinese literature and culture. It shows how our understanding of a field can be enriched by the inclusion of a wider range of texts and by the extension of our scholarly foci. It further contributes to our understanding of the history of modern Chinese culture as transnational.” (Yi Zheng, MCLC Resource Center, u.osu.edu, February, 2017)
“This is a lucidly written book. Its theoretical and methodological approach pays homage to a range of theories and studies but it succeeds in providing a unique and illuminating study of issues surrounding Chinese modernity from the perspective of the ‘feminine at large.’ More specifically, this study successfully demonstrates the usefulness of the conception of ‘the feminine’ in understanding male subjectivities.” (Xueping Zhong, Frontiers ofLiterary Studies in China, Vol. 10 (1), April, 2016)
"This is a succinct but illuminating study of modern Chinese literature from a gendered perspective. Ping Zhu has a sophisticated command of Western feminist theory, which is applied to some of the most seminal as well as hitherto neglected fictional texts from the early 20th-century literature - with a significant and thought-provoking twist: under the general thematic rubric of the 'feminine at large,' the author shows that the gender discourse derived from Western colonial modernity was adopted NOT at the expense of Chinese subjectivity. Rather the reverse is the case: Western feminism is 'undone' in order to empower the modern Chinese nation and the subjectivities of both sexes. I find the author's analysis and insight both original and sobering - not only to those blinded by 'male chauvinism' but also to those who blindly follow the dictates of Western feminist theory." -Leo Ou-fan Lee, Sin Wai Kin Professor of Chinese Culture, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Professor Emeritus of Chinese Literature, Harvard University, USA
"A lucid, original, discerning scholar, Zhu's work steps out beyond recent cultural critique and intellectual history. Introducing less studied texts, and resolving existing debates over key texts, this book demonstrates how the anamorphic feminine worked in revolutionary cultural production. That this 'feminine at large' saturated male and female writing in early 20th century Chinese letters - from Lu Xun to Bai Wei - helps us understand the singular centrality of the feminine in Chinese colonial modernity. Zhu forwards the idea that you cannot not address femininity in history of modern China." - Tani E. Barlow, Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Studies at Rice University, USA and author of The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender and Subjectivities in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Culture
Authors: Ping Zhu
Series Title: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137514738
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Ping Zhu 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51689-3Published: 10 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51473-8Published: 10 June 2015
Series ISSN: 2945-7254
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7262
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 194
Topics: Asian Literature, Gender Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary History, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory