Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 1993-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0520081587
"Opening up questions about women's lives, about gender, about why we read history at all and how we write it, Patricia Buckley Ebrey has made The Inner Quarters a place we need to enter."—from the Foreword
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Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Women
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Author : Fran Martin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1478022221
In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the other, strong neotraditionalist state, social, and familial pressures of the post-Mao era push them back toward marriage and family by age thirty. Martin examines these women’s motivations for studying in Australia and traces their embodied and emotional experiences of urban life, social media worlds, work in low-skilled and professional jobs, romantic relationships, religion, Chinese patriotism, and changed self-understanding after study abroad. Martin illustrates how emerging forms of gender, class, and mobility fundamentally transform the basis of identity for a whole generation of Chinese women.
Author : Xueping Zhong
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813529691
Some of Us is a collection of memoirs by nine Chinese women who grew up during the Mao era. All hail from urban backgrounds and all have obtained their Ph.D.s in the United States; thus, their memories are informed by intellectual training and insights that only distance can allow. Each of the chapters--arranged by the age of the author--is crafted by a writer who reflects back to that time in a more nuanced manner than has been possible for Western observers. The authors attend to gender in a way that male writers have barely noticed and reflect on their lives in the United States.
Author : Manying Ip
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A study of the changing Chinese community in NZ through the autobiographical accounts of eight women.
Author : Xiaofei Kang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004415939
This volume includes 14 articles translated from the leading academic history journal in China, Historical Studies of Contemporary China (Dangdai Zhongguo shi yanjiu). It offers a rare window for the English speaking world to learn how scholars in China have understood and interpreted central issues pertaining to women and family from the founding of the PRC to the reform era. Chapters cover a wide range of topics, from women’s liberation, women’s movement and women’s education, to the impact of marriage laws and marriage reform, and changing practices of conjugal love, sexuality, family life and family planning. The volume invites further comparative inquiries into the gendered nature of the socialist state and the meanings of socialist feminism in the global context.
Author : Haiping Yan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134570899
This book works equally well in the following multiple fields: Gender Studies, Literary/Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Asian and Pacific Studies, Chinese Studies, Critical Theory and Literary Historiography
Author : Susan Blumberg-Kason
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1402293356
A stunning memoir of an intercultural marriage gone wrong When Susan, a shy Midwesterner in love with Chinese culture, started graduate school in Hong Kong, she quickly fell for Cai, the Chinese man of her dreams. As they exchanged vows, Susan thought she'd stumbled into an exotic fairy tale, until she realized Cai—and his culture—where not what she thought. In her riveting memoir, Susan recounts her struggle to be the perfect traditional "Chinese" wife to her increasingly controlling and abusive husband. With keen insight and heart-wrenching candor, she confronts the hopes and hazards of intercultural marriage, including dismissing her own values and needs to save her relationship and protect her newborn son, Jake. But when Cai threatens to take Jake back to China for good, Susan must find the courage to stand up for herself, her son, and her future. Moving between rural China and the bustling cities of Hong Kong and San Francisco, Good Chinese Wife is an eye-opening look at marriage and family in contemporary China and America and an inspiring testament to the resilience of a mother's love—across any border.
Author : Robin Wang
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780872206519
This rich collection of writings--many translated especially for this volume and some available in English for the first time--provides a journey through the history of Chinese culture, tracing the Chinese understanding of women as elucidated in writings spanning more than two thousand years. From the earliest oracle bone inscriptions of the Pre-Qin period through the poems and stories of the Song Dynasty, these works shed light on Chinese images of women and their roles in society in terms of such topics as human nature, cosmology, gender, and virtue.
Author : Agnes Smedley
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780912670447
Agnes Smedley worked in and wrote about China from 1928 until 1941. Her journalism and fiction capture the massacre of short-haired feminists in the Canton commune, the lives of silk workers of Canton charged with being lesbians, and the story of Mother Tsai, a peasant who leads village women in smashing an opium den. The Village Voice praised the volume for having "captured brilliantly... the forces of the old and new China struggling in each person she describes."
