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Once iron girls : essays on gender by post-Mao Chinese literary women / edited by Hui Wu.
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2010.
Description
xiii, 154 pages ; 24 cm
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East Asian Library - Western Languages
PL2308.5.W65 O53 2010
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Chinese literature
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20th century
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History and criticism
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Chinese literature
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Women authors
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History and criticism
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Gender identity
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China
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China
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Intellectual life
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1976-
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Wu, Hui, 1953-
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Summary note
"Available in English for the first time, Once Iron Girls: Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women brings together twenty-five essays by seven critically acclaimed writers, whose fiction and poetry have become classics in modern Chinese literature. Poetic, metaphoric, and sometimes playful and satiric, the essays discuss the material reality wherein Chinese women live and function. Reflecting on their experiences under Mao and in post-Maoist China, these essays vividly demonstrate that, despite equality of the sexes being the official position and women working equally demanding jobs as men, women are still considered servile to their male counterparts." "Taken together, the collection shows Chinese women struggling for identity by discussing the issues that are important in their lives. Unlike Western feminists, they do not want to be seen as different from their male counterparts. Nor do they want to fall into Chinese terminology of being the same as men. Rather, these essays show that women want to be seen first and foremost as human and then as female. By showcasing the politics and poetics of Chinese women's essays to an English audience, Hui Wu's translations uncover the philosophy and purpose behind the literature of a unique generation of Chinese women, whose life experience finds no parallel in China and certainly not in the West."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Bi Shumin. A writer's face
Androgyny
When can women start enjoying life?
Seeking amazing women
Fang Fang. Obedience versus disobedience
Women's eyes
On women
May my dream come true
Han Xiaohui. Gender roles in commercials
I don't want to be a woman
Three autumnal phases in a day
Women don't cry
Hu Xin. WOmen's footprints of pain
A pink humore
My view on women
Lu Xing'er. Women's "Sameness" and "Difference"
On "Femininity"
One is not born a woman
Women and the crisis
Shu ting. Shadow of the Chaste Temple
Give her some space
A mirror of one's own
Zhang Kangkang. We need two worlds
A preface for myself
The "Grand" realm versus the "True" realm.
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ISBN
9780739134214 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0739134213
9780739134238
073913423X
LCCN
2009037696
OCLC
441945321
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Once iron girls [electronic resource] : essays on gender by post-Mao Chinese literary women / translated and edited with an introduction by Hui Wu.
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