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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792744303321

Autore

Zhu Yun

Titolo

Imagining sisterhood in modern Chinese texts, 1890-1937 / / Yun Zhu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4985-3630-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 pages)

Disciplina

305.420951

Soggetti

Women - China - Social conditions

Feminism - China - History

China Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: gender, nation, subjectivities, and the discourse on sisterhood in modern China -- The emergence of the "women's sphere" and the promotion of sisterhood in the Late Qing -- From dual slaves to liberty flowers: the feminist-nationalist spectrum of sisterhood in Stones of the jingwei bird and Chivalric beauties -- Is blood always thicker than water? rival sisters and the tensions of modernity -- Cosmopolitan bourgeois sisterhood and the ambiguities of female-centeredness in Lin Loon magazine (1931-1937) -- Sisterly lovers in women's fiction and the potential of "nondevelopment" as a feminist intervention -- Conclusion.