Untamed shrews : negotiating new womanhood in modern China
Shu Yang (Author)
"Untamed Shrews traces the evolution of unruly women in Chinese literature, from the reviled "shrew" to the celebrated "new woman." Yang shows that the violent, jealous, and promiscuous shrew archetype of imperial times transformed into a symbol of empowerment in Republican and Communist China"-- Provided by publisher
Cornell East Asia series, 213, number 213
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9781501770616, 1501770616
1345466014
Introduction: The Shrew-New Woman Nexus
The Shrew Is Back: Media Representations of the Early Radical Chinese Suffragettes
Jealous Shrew, Judicious New Woman: May Fourth Disputes on Female Jealousy and Virtue
Reconfiguring Female Promiscuity in Love and Independence: Pan Jinlian, Nora, and Jiang Qing
Popular Views on the Shrewish Wife: Henpecked Humor, Female Rule, and Family- State Metaphor
Revolutionary Views on the Shrewish Wife: From Husband-Disciplining to Early Communist State-Building
Epilogue: Beyond 1949, Shrews in The Great Leap Forward