Writing women in modern China : the revolutionary years, 1936-1976
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Writing women in modern China : the revolutionary years, 1936-1976
（Weatherhead books on Asia）
Columbia University Press, c2005
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Bibliography: p. [313]-322
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Revolution, foreign occupation, and political, cultural, and economic upheavals defined mid-twentieth-century Chinese society. This new anthology, a sequel to the acclaimed first volume, compiled by Dooling and Kristina Torgeson and covering the early twentieth century, includes an impressive range of literary, personal, and journalistic responses to these tumultuous events. From succinct reportage of contemporary historical circumstances to comic accounts of twentieth-century urban living to carefully stylized modernist works of fiction, the selections in this anthology reflect the diversity, liveliness, humor, and surprising cosmopolitanism of women's writing from the period. This collection also reveals the ways in which women writers imagined and inscribed new meanings to Chinese feminism. Biographical information on the writers-including Yang Gang, Bai Wei, Hu Lanxi, Yang Jiang, Zong Pu, Chen Ruoxi, and others-introduces the selections from their works. Dooling's critical introduction and bibliographical materials further enrich readers'understanding of the role of women's writing in Chinese literary modernity.
Table of Contents
Introduction Yang Gang / Fragment from a Lost Diary (1936), translated by the author Yang Gang / The American South (1951), translated by Robin Visser Bai Wei / Third-Class Hospital Ward (1936), translated by Amy Dooling Hu Lanqi / In a German Women's Prison (1937), translated by Hu Mingliang Chen Xuezhao / The Essentials and Ambiance of Life (1940), translated by Shu Yunzhong Crossing the Tong-Pu Railroad (1949), translated by Shu Yunzhong Xie Bingying / The Girl Umeko (1941), translated by Hu Mingliang Yang Jiang / Forging the Truth (1944), translated by Amy Dooling Su Qing / Waves (1945), translated by Cathy Silber Fengzi / The Portrait (1947), translated by Ann Huss Lu Xiaoman / The Imperial Hotel (1947), translated by Amy Dooling Zong Pu / Red Beans (1957), translated by Geremie Barme Ru Zhijuan / The Warmth of Spring (1959), translated by Sabina Knight Chen Ruoxi / Residency Check (1976), translated by Howard Goldblatt
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