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Type: | Book |
Title: | Women writers in postsocialist China |
Author: | Schaffer, K. Song, X. |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Publisher Place: | United Kingdom |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Series/Report no.: | ASAA Women in Asia Series |
ISBN: | 9780415682749 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Kay Schaffer and Xianlin Song |
Abstract: | What does it mean to read from elsewhere? Women Writers in Postsocialist China introduces readers to a range and variety of contemporary Chinese women’s writing, which has seen phenomenal growth in recent years. The book addresses the different ways women’s issues are understood in China and the West, attending to the processes of translation, adaptation, and the grafting of new ideas with existing Chinese understandings of gender, feminism, subjectivity, consumerism and (post) modernism. By focusing on women’s autobiographical, biographical, fictional and historical writing, the book engages in a transcultural flow of ideas between western and indigenous Chinese feminisms. Taking account of the accretions of social, cultural, geographic, literary, economic, and political movements and trends, cultural formations and ways of thinking, it asks how the texts and the concepts they negotiate might be understood in the social and cultural spaces within China and how they might be interpreted differently elsewhere in the global locations in which they circulate. The book argues that women-centred writing in China has a direct bearing on global feminist theory and practice. This critical study of selected genres and writers highlights the shifts in feminist perspectives within contemporary local and global cultural landscapes. |
Rights: | © 2014 Kay Schaffer and Xianlin Song |
DOI: | 10.4324/9780203799222 |
Published version: | http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415682749/ |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Gender Studies and Social Analysis publications |
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