Writing women in modern China : the revolutionary years, 1936-1976
This New Anthology, a sequel to the acclaimed first volume covering the early twentieth century, includes a variety of literary, personal, and journalistic responses to the tumultuous history of mid-twentieth-century China. Selections by some of the most important Chinese women writers of the twentieth century reflect the intellectual and aesthetic diversity of women's writing from the period. Often working under difficult circumstances and at personal risk, these ground-breaking Chinese women writers offer riveting accounts of contemporary historical conditions, comic depictions of twentieth-century urban life, and modernist works of fiction. Their work also reveals the ways in which writers imagined and inscribed new meanings in Chinese feminism. Book jacket
Print Book, English, 2004
Columbia University Press, New York, 2004