Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism

Contents
Foreword  • Howard Goldblatt
Introduction • Tani E. Barlow
The Language of Despair: Ideological Representations of the “New Woman” by May Fourth Writers • Ching-kiu Stephen Chan
Invention and Intervention: The Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature • Lydia H. Liu
The End of “Funü Wenxue”: Women’s Literature from 1925 to 1935 • Wendy Larson
Woman as Trope: Gender and Power in Lu Xun’s “Soap” • Carolyn T. Brown
Virtuous Transactions: A Reading of Three Stories by Ling Shuhua • Rey Chow
Images of Subjugation and Defiance: Female Characters in the Early Dramas of Tian Han • Randy Kaplan
Female Images and National Myth • Meng Vue
Writing with Your Body: Literature as a Wound—Remarks on the Poetry of Shu Ting • Wolfgang Kubin
Harmony and Equality: Notes on “Mimosa” and “Ark” • Chen Yu-shih
Three Interviews: Wang Anyi, Zhu Lin, Dai Ding • Wang Zheng
In the Translator’s Eye: On the Significance of Zhu Lin • Richard King
Yuan Qiongqiong and the Rage for Eileen Zhang Among Taiwan’s Feminine Writers • Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang
Taking Tiger Mountain: Can Xue’s Resistance and Cultural Critique • Jon Solomon
Feminism in the Chinese Context: Li Ang’s The Butcher’s Wife • Sheung-Yuen Daisy Ng
Political Evaluation and Reevaluation in Contemporary Chinese Fiction • Margaret H. Decker
Notes on Contributors
Index