New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction

by Jin Feng

In The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction, Jin Feng proposes that representation of the "new woman" in Communist Chinese fiction of the earlier twentieth century was paradoxically one of the ways in which male writers of the era explored, negotiated, and laid claim to their own emerging identity as "modern" intellectuals. Specifically, Feng argues that male writers such as Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, Ba Jin, and Mao Dun created fictional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155753330X
• ISBN13: 9781557533302
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"