Woman and Chinese Modernity The Politics of Reading between West and East Rey Chow		$23.50 paper ISBN: 0-8166-1871-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-1871-2
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. "An important general development in feminist thought about ethnicity, cultural imperialism and literary interpretation." —Feminist Bookstore News "Brilliant, erudite, eclectic, complex , subtle. I am sympathetic to Chow's project and frankly dazzled by her enormous intellectual range." —The Women's Review of Books "Rey Chow's book addresses on of the oldest questions in comparative literary studies: How do we read?" —Comparative Literature Winner, first place prize for scholarly books in the 1990 Chicago Women in Publishing competition. 240 pages | 1990 Theory and History of Literature Series, volume 75