Writing Women in Modern China: The Revolutionary Years, 1936-1976 (Weatherhead Books on Asia)

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 and inscribed new meanings to Chinese feminism. Also included are biographical information on the writers, bibliographical materials, and a critical introduction by Dooling.

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 and inscribed new meanings to Chinese feminism.

Biographical information on the writers -- including Yang Gang, Bai Wei, Hu Lanxi, Yang Jiang, Zong Pu, Chen Ruoxi, and others -- introduces the selections from their works. Dooling's critical introduction and bibliographical materials further enrich readers'understanding of the role of women's writing in Chinese literary modernity.

Columbia University Press

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 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. Edited By Amy D. Dooling. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [313]-322).