Different Worlds of Discourse: Transformations of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China: 16 (China Studies, 16) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004167765 ISBN 13: 9789004167766

Publisher: Brill, 2008

Synopsis

During the late Qing reform era (1895-1912), women for the first time in Chinese history emerged in public space in collective groups. They assumed new social and educational roles and engaged in intense debates about the place of women in China's present and future. These debates found expression in new media, including periodicals and pictorials, which not only harnessed the power of existing cultural forms but also encouraged experimentation with a variety of new literary genres and styles - works increasingly produced by and for Chinese women. Different Worlds of Discourse explores the reform period from three interrelated and comparatively neglected perspectives: the construction of gender roles, the development of literary genres, and the emergence of new forms of print media.

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Nanxiu Qian, Ph.D. (1994) in Literature, Yale University, is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Rice University. She has published on Classical Chinese literature and women and gender studies, including Spirit and Self in Medieval China: The Shih-shuo hsin-yü and Its Legacy (Hawai'i, 2001).
Grace S. Fong, Ph.D. (1984) in Literature, University of British Columbia, is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at McGill University, Canada. She has published widely on Classical Chinese poetry and poetics and women's writing. Her most recent book is Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China (Hawai'i, 2008).
Richard J. Smith, Ph.D. (1973) in History, University of California, Davis, is Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. He is the author, co-author or co-editor of 12 books, the most recent of which is Fathoming the Cosmos and Managing the World (UVA Press, 2008).

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004167765
• ISBN 13: 9789004167766
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 420
• Editor: Qian Nanxiu, Fong Grace, Smith Richard