Women Writers in Postsocialist China

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

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Routledge
23 July 2013

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

Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

Women's writing in post-Socialist China has seen phenomenal growth in recent years, and this book examines this growth and its relationship to the transformation of women's lives. The book focuses on four genres of women's writing - life narratives and autobiographical fiction, popular literature, historical biographies and oral narratives - emerging out of the transcultural flow of ideas between western and indigenous Chinese feminisms. Together, these contemporary forms of writing represent a feminist labour of women who consciously conceptualise their work as an active force in cultural construction and transformation, and carve out a previously under-explored space for women's desires, subjectivities and identities in post-Soviet China. The book argues that the discrete historical and political contexts which shape the writing have a direct bearing on global feminist theory and practice, and this critical study of selected genres and writers highlight the shifts in feminist perspectives within the contemporary local and global cultural landscape.

By: Kay Schaffer, Xianlin Song (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9780415682749
ISBN 10: 0415682746
Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 23 July 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: Women Writers in Postsocialist China 2. Translations of the Self: Hong Ying's Daughter of the River and Summer of Betrayal 3. Narrative, Trauma and Memory: Chen Ran's A Private Life 4. Silence and the Silenced – Literary Renderings of Rural Women's Lives in and Beyond China: Lin Bai's Record of Women's Chatting, Sheng Keyi's Northern Girls, and Xinran's Transnational Interventions 5. 'Beauty Writers', Consumer Culture, and Global China: Wei Hui's Shanghai Baby, Mian Mian's Candy, and the Internet Generation 6. Revisiting the Twentieth Century: Zhang Yihe's Historical Memoirs and Chen Danyan's Shanghai Trilogy 7. Reconstructing the Past: Zhao Mei's Biography of Tang Dynasty Emperor, Woman: Wu Zetian 8. Epic Re-Visionings: Xu Xiaobin's Fabulist Tale, Feathered Serpent 9. Conclusion: New Desires, New Identities: Reorienting Literary and Gender Relations in and Beyond China

Kay Schaffer is an Adjunct Professor in Gender, Work and Social Inquiry at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Xianlin Song is Discipline Head 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 government to how post-socialist female writers have successfully removed themselves from these shackles. - Leung Wing-fai, King's College London