ISBN:
9780415841382
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (237 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series
Parallel Title:
Print version New Modern Chinese Women and Gender Politics : The Centennial of the End of the Qing Dynasty
DDC:
305.40951
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The past century witnessed dramatic changes in the lives of modern Chinese women and gender politics. Whilst some revolutionary actions to rectify the feudalist patriarchy, such as foot-binding and polygyny were first seen in the late Qing period; the termination of the Qing Dynasty and establishment of Republican China in 1911-1912 initiated truly nation-wide constitutional reform alongside increasing gender egalitarianism. This book traces the radical changes in gender politics in China, and the way in which the lives, roles and status of Chinese women have been transformed over the last one
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I New modern women in China; 1 Equal rights before the law at the founding of the Chinese Republic, 1911; 2 Fashion and freedom: a textual analysis of Chinese women from 1911 to 2011; 3 Revolutionary femininity in performance: female characters in Beijing opera model plays during China's Cultural Revolution; 4 Pygmalion in China: Galatea as an answer to Nora; 5 The White Snake as the new woman of modern China
Description / Table of Contents:
6 The pregnant nude and photographic representationPart II New modern Chinese women with overseas experience; 7 Forces for change: overseas education for Chinese women at the turn of the Republican period in China; 8 Taiwan's first female overseas student as an American attorney: my career stories and fighting spirit; 9 The image of the traveling mother in Eileen Chang's The Fall of the Pagoda and The Book of Change; 10 New modern Chinese women in the United States; Part III Queer issues in new modern Chinese gender politics
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Demystifying heteronormality: the culture politics of same-sex desire in China's past and present12 Chinese GBT socioculturally situated in Confucian gender ethics: Farewell My Concubine since the late Qing Dynast; 13 Cinematic visualization of spiritual lesbianism in Monika Treut's Ghosted: countering essentialist concerns about Li Ang's literary works; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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