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.
Awards
Chicago Women in Publishing’s first place winner for scholarly books
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.
An important general development in feminist thought about ethnicity, cultural imperialism and literary interpretation.
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Feminist Bookstore News
Brilliant, erudite, eclectic, complex, subtle. I am sympathetic to Chow’s project and frankly dazzled by her enormous intellectual range.
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Women’s Review of Books
Rey Chow’s book addresses on of the oldest questions in comparative literary studies: How do we read?
Aching for BeautyFootbinding in China
A fascinating and haunting exploration of the bound foot in Chinese culture.
SinographiesWriting China
A new critical model for understanding China and its role in Western literary and political life
Male Trouble
The contributors provide a thought-provoking, comprehensive study of masculinity in American culture today.
Contributors: Parveen Adams, Ian Balfour, Ray Barrie, Sabrina Barton, Steven Cohan, Rey Chow, Alexander Doty, Henry Jenkins III, Lynne Kirby, Constance Penley, Kaja Silverman, Sasha Torres, and Sharon Willis.
Red LightsThe Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China
A revealing and intimate study of rural Chinese women working in an urban sex trade