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
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