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Emerging from the Horizon of History

Modern Chinese Women’s Literature, 1917–1949

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Authors:
  1. Yue Meng

    1. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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  2. Jinhua Dai

    1. Peking University, Beijing, China

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  • Explores the literary output of female writers in contemporary China within a feminist framework
  • Includes perspectives in psychoanalysis, structuralism and deconstructionism
  • Offers a comprehensive study of key authors such as Yin Lu, Xin Bing, Ning Ding and Ailing Zhang

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This book systematically studies the literary output of female writers in contemporary China within the frame of literary theories of feminism. With tools from psychoanalysis, structuralism and deconstructionism, the two female authors, Meng and Dai, analyze 9 important female writers from 1919 to 1949, including Yin Lu, Xin Bing, Ning Ding, Ailing Zhang. By decade, the authors provide a comprehensive depiction of these female writers' historic-cultural background as well as their reception by critics and audiences. Navigating the complex relation between mainstream literary trends and female writers’ practice, this text represents a landmark of practice of literary feminist criticism within the Chinese language.

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Yue Meng, Jinhua Dai
    Pages 1-47

  3. (1917–1927)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. Ten Years of the “May Fourth” Era: A Floating Historical Stage

      • Yue Meng, Jinhua Dai
      Pages 51-76

    3. Lu Yin: “Wimps Standing in Front of Life’s Diverging Paths”

      • Yue Meng, Jinhua Dai
      Pages 77-95

    4. Yuanjun: Rebellion and Sentimental Attachment

      • Yue Meng, Jinhua Dai
      Pages 97-109

    5. Bing Xin: Fortune’s Favored Daughter

      • Yue Meng, Jinhua Dai
      Pages 111-124

    6. Ling Shuhua: The Feminine World Trapped in a Corner

      • Yue Meng, Jinhua Dai
      Pages 125-142

  4. (1927–1937)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. The 1930s: Myths in the Crevice of Civilizations

      • Yue Meng, Jinhua Dai
      Pages 145-162

    3. Ding Ling: Vulnerable “Goddess”

      • Yue Meng, Jinhua Dai
      Pages 163-183

    4. Marching Towards Battlefields and the Bottom Classes

      • Yue Meng, Jinhua Dai
      Pages 185-195

    5. Women in the City: On the Margins of a Glorious Page of History

      • Yue Meng, Jinhua Dai
      Pages 197-205

    6. Bai Wei: A Survivor of Ordeals

      • Yue Meng, Jinhua Dai
      Pages 207-220

    7. Xiao Hong: The Brave and Wise Pathfinder

      • Yue Meng, Jinhua Dai
      Pages 221-246

  5. (1937–1949)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247
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    2. The 1940s: A Divided World

      • Yue Meng, Jinhua Dai
      Pages 249-272

    3. Su Qing: Women—“Civilians in the Occupied Areas”

      • Yue Meng, Jinhua Dai
      Pages 273-289

    4. Zhang Ailing: The Knowing Smile of a Desolate Beauty

      • Yue Meng, Jinhua Dai
      Pages 291-307

    5. Conclusion: Gender and Spiritual Gender—On the Liberation of Chinese Women

      • Yue Meng, Jinhua Dai
      Pages 309-314
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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Yue Meng

  • Peking University, Beijing, China

    Jinhua Dai

About the authors

Yue MENG, doctor of history from University of California, Los Angeles, professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Jinhua DAI, professor of the Department  of  Chinese Language and Literature and director of the Center for Film and Culture Studies at Peking University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Emerging from the Horizon of History

  • Book Subtitle: Modern Chinese Women’s Literature, 1917–1949

  • Authors: Yue Meng, Jinhua Dai

  • Translated by: Qi Sun

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4004-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Peking University Press 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4003-5Published: 02 October 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4006-6Due: 01 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-4004-2Published: 30 September 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 335

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Asian Literature, Feminism, History of China

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