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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451171303321

Autore

Huang Xincun <1967->

Titolo

Women, war, domesticity [[electronic resource] ] : Shanghai literature and popular culture of the 1940s / / by Nicole Huang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2005

ISBN

1-280-86758-2

9786610867585

1-4294-5270-6

90-474-0693-1

1-4337-0610-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Collana

China studies, , 1570-1344 ; ; 6

Disciplina

895.1/099287/0904

Soggetti

Women authors, Chinese - China - Shanghai

Popular culture - China - Shanghai

Electronic books.

China History 1937-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-271) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; Prologue - Travels of Scarlett O'Hara; Chapter One - Introduction: Written in the Ruins; Chapter Two - Fashioning Public Intellectuals: The Emergence of a Women's Print Culture; Chapter Three - Image Studios: The Art of a Women's Magazine; Chapter Four - Written on Water: Eileen Chang and the Modern Essay; Chapter Five - Ethnographies of Wartime: Autobiographical Fiction by Su Qing and Pan Liudai; Chapter Six - Garden of the Ruins: Shi Jimei's Domestic Fiction; Epilogue - Travels of Eileen Chang; Plates; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book studies a burgeoning middlebrow culture championed and sustained by a group of women writers, editors, and publishers who began their careers in Shanghai in the early 1940's when the city entered into an era of total occupation by the Japanese.