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Writing Women in Modern China
Amy D. Dooling
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Description for Writing Women in Modern China
Paperback. Includes various literary, personal, and journalistic responses to the events in the mid-twentieth-century Chinese society. This work reflects the diversity, liveliness, humor, and cosmopolitanism of women's writing from the period. It also reveals the ways in which women writers imagined and inscribed new meanings to Chinese feminism. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DQ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 544.
Revolution, foreign occupation, and political, cultural, and economic upheavals defined mid-twentieth-century Chinese society. This new anthology, a sequel to the acclaimed first volume, compiled by Dooling and Kristina Torgeson and covering the early twentieth century, includes an impressive range of literary, personal, and journalistic responses to these tumultuous events. 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 ... Read more
Revolution, foreign occupation, and political, cultural, and economic upheavals defined mid-twentieth-century Chinese society. This new anthology, a sequel to the acclaimed first volume, compiled by Dooling and Kristina Torgeson and covering the early twentieth century, includes an impressive range of literary, personal, and journalistic responses to these tumultuous events. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Weatherhead Books on Asia
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231132176
SKU
V9780231132176
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About Amy D. Dooling
Amy D. Dooling is associate professor of Chinese at Connecticut College. She is the author of Women's Literary Feminism in Twentieth-Century China and the coeditor and co-translator (with Kristina Torgeson) of Writing Women in Modern China: An Anthology of Literature by Chinese Women from the Early Twentieth Century.
Reviews for Writing Women in Modern China
Impressive range of literary, personal and journalistic responses to... tumultuous events. Connecticut College Magazine