Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948
Douban
Yan Haiping
Overview
Charting the literary works and life journeys of eight leading women writers in modern China, Haiping Yan presents an examination of the politics and poetics of Chinese transcultural feminism within the boundaries of bourgeois feminist selfhood. Drawing on these women's vast works and dramatic lives, the book illuminates the range of Chinese women's literary and artistic achievements and explores the degree to which Chinese women writers re-invent their lives along with their writings. This impressive and fascinating study investigates vital sources for exploring the history and legacy of twentieth-century Chinese feminist consciousness, and as such will be of interest to scholars of feminist theory, cultural studies and theatre studies.
contents
Preface
Introduction: On Empowerment 1
1 Unseen Rhythms Sea Changes 12
2 Qiu Jin and Her Imaginary 33
3 The Stars of Night: Bing Xin and the Literary Constellation of the 1920s 69
4. Other Life: Bai Wei Yuan, Changying and Social Dramas in the 1930s 100
5 War, Death, and the Art of Existence: Mobile Women in the 1940s 135
6 Rhythms of the Unreal (I) : Ding Ling's Feminist Passage 168
7 Rhythms of the Unreal (II): The Ding Ling Story and the Chinese Revolution 200
Afterword 241
Notes 243
Index 290
