Women Writers in Postsocialist China

Kay Schaffer, Xianlin Song (University of Adelaide, Australia)

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Routledge
09 December 2015

Literature: history & criticism; Regional studies; Gender studies: women

Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

What does it mean to read from elsewhere? Women Writers in Postsocialist China introduces readers to a range and variety of contemporary Chinese women’s writing, which has seen phenomenal growth in recent years. The book addresses the different ways women’s issues are understood in China and the West, attending to the processes of translation, adaptation, and the grafting of new ideas with existing Chinese understandings of gender, feminism, subjectivity, consumerism and (post) modernism. By focusing on women’s autobiographical, biographical, fictional and historical writing, the book engages in a transcultural flow of ideas between western and indigenous Chinese feminisms. Taking account of the accretions of social, cultural, geographic, literary, economic, and political movements and trends, cultural formations and ways of thinking, it asks how the texts and the concepts they negotiate might be understood in the social and cultural spaces within China and how they might be interpreted differently elsewhere in the global locations in which they circulate. The book argues that women-centred writing in China has a direct bearing on global feminist theory and practice. This critical study of selected genres and writers highlights the shifts in feminist perspectives within contemporary local and global cultural landscapes.

By: Kay Schaffer, Xianlin Song (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138643468
ISBN 10: 1138643467
Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 09 December 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kay Schaffer is an Adjunct Professor in Gender Studies and Social Analysis at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Xianlin Song is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Reviews for Women Writers in Postsocialist China

This book is no doubt a timely and important study of the post-socialist cultural landscape through the lens of women writers. (...) the major achievement of the book is its ability to observe the shift from how writers of the 1980s had to have a lofty educative object and to conform to the ideological concerns of the governmentto how post-socialist female writers have successfully removed themselves from these shackles. - Leung Wing-fai, King's College London