Woman and Chinese Modernity
The Politics of Reading between West and East
Examines the relationship of “woman” to issues of non-western culture.
- First place winner – scholarly books – Chicago Women in Publishing
224 Pages, 6 x 9 in
- Paperback
- 9780816618712
- Published: January 1, 1991
- Series: Theory and History of Literature
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Woman and Chinese Modernity
The Politics of Reading between West and East
Series: Theory and History of Literature
ISBN: 9780816618712
Publication date: January 1st, 1991
224 Pages
9 x 6
Examines the relationship of “woman” to issues of non-western culture.
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.
Rey Chow grew up in Hong Kong and received her Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. She is an assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Minnesota, where she is affiliated with the Departments of East Asian Studies and Women’s Studies. She has contributed articles to Cultural Critique, New German Critique, Radical America, Modern Chinese Literature, Dialectical Anthropology, Discourse, Camera Obscura, and Differences.
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