New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction
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- ISBN 9781557533302
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 159 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 2004
- Publisher: Purdue University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction, Jin Feng discusses representations of women in May Fourth fiction, issues of gender, modernity, individualism, subjectivity, and narrative strategy. In this thought-provoking book about a crucial period of Chinese literature, Feng argues that male writers such as Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, Ba Jin, and Mao Dun created fictional women as mirror images of their own political inadequacy, but that at the same time this was also an egocentric ploy to affirm and highlight the modernity of the male author. This gender-biased attitude was translated into reality when women writers emerged. Whereas unfair, gender-biased criticism all but stifled the creative output of Bing Xin, Fang Yuanjun, and Lu Yin, Ding Ling's dogged attention to narrative strategy allowed her to maintain subjectivity and independence in her writings; that is until all writers were forced to write for the collective.
Jin Feng obtained her PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her areas of interest include: twentieth-century Chinese literature, the Chinese diaspora, narratology, comparative theory, and gender and women's studies. She teaches Chinese language and literature at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa and is working on a new project focusing on narratives written by Chinese ""foreign students"" about their experiences in the United States.
