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Author Zhu, Yun, 1979- author.

Title Imagining sisterhood in modern Chinese texts, 1890-1937 / Yun Zhu
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, 2017

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Contents Introduction: gender, nation, subjectivities, and the discourse on sisterhood in modern China -- The emergence of the "women's sphere" and the promotion of sisterhood in the Late Qing -- From dual slaves to liberty flowers: the feminist-nationalist spectrum of sisterhood in Stones of the jingwei bird and Chivalric beauties -- Is blood always thicker than water? rival sisters and the tensions of modernity -- Cosmopolitan bourgeois sisterhood and the ambiguities of female-centeredness in Lin Loon magazine (1931-1937) -- Sisterly lovers in women's fiction and the potential of "nondevelopment" as a feminist intervention -- Conclusion
Summary Through the lens of the discursive reconstruction and cultural reimagining of sisterhood, this book investigates the dynamic entanglements and contestations among women, nation, and Chinese modernity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Women in literature.
Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Chinese literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Women and literature -- China -- History -- 20th century
Feminism and literature -- China -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Chinese literature
Chinese literature -- Women authors
Feminism and literature
Women and literature
Women in literature
China
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017021557
ISBN 9781498536301
1498536301