Woman and Chinese Modernity : the Politics of Reading Between West and East.

Examines the relationship of "woman" to issues of non-Western culture: ethnic spectatorship, popular literature, the construction of literary history, and the revolutionary production and emotional reception of national literature.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Chow, Rey
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
Series:Theory and history of literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Seeing Modern China: Toward a Theory of Ethnic Spectatorship; 2. Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: An Exercise in Popular Readings; 3. Modernity and Narration--in Feminine Detail; 4. Loving Women: Masochism, Fantasy, and the Idealization of the Mother; Notes; Index.