Women and Chinese Modernity. The Politics of Reading between East and West.
Minnesota. Unniversity of Minnesota Press. 1990. Stock ID #168661 "Chow brings together a variety of texts about modern China - from Bertolucci's Last Emperor, to popular "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly" stories, to writings by male and female authors of the May Fourth period and after - and organises them along four critical paths, all of which involve 'woman': the visual image, literary history, narrative structure, and emotional reception. When referring to this item please quote stockid 168661.
xvii + 197pp, notes, index, small sticker remnant front endpaper, very good hardback copy.
These, in turn, allow four mutually implicated aspects of 'Chinese' modernity to come to the fore: the ethnic spectator, the fragmentation of tradition in popular literature, the problematic construction of a new 'inner' reality through narration, and the relations between sexuality, sentimentalism, and reading." (Publisher's description).
Price: $40.00 AU