- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: I.B.Tauris (28 Feb 2012)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1848859392
- ISBN-13: 978-1848859395
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Katrina Gulliver s groundbreaking interdisciplinary study examines the way female writers of novels, non-fiction and diaries saw their gender at a time of modernization and crisis. Gulliver uses case studies of selected women, from Pearl S. Buck through Sophia Chen Zen to Uno Chiyo, in China and Japan between about 1920 and 1940, to explore responses to the social change. This book should appeal to students, scholars and general readers interested in gender, history, literature and culture East and West. --Jonathan Hart, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Alberta
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At the dawn of the 1930s a new empowered and liberated image of the female was taking root in popular culture in the West. This modern woman archetype was also penetrating into Eastern cultures, however, challenging the Chinese and Japanese historical norm of the woman as homemaker, servant or geisha. Through a focus on the writings of the Western women who engaged with the Far East, and the Eastern writers and personalities who reacted to this new global gender communication by forming their own separate identities, Katrina Gulliver reveals the complex redefining of the self taking place in a crucial time of political and economic upheaval. Including an analysis of the work of Nobel Prize laureate Pearl S. Buck, The Modern Woman in China and Japan is an important contribution to gender studies and will appeal to historians and scholars of China and East Asia as well as to those studying Asian and American literature.
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While the history of feminism in the early 20th century has received increasingly more scholarly attention over the last few decades, its manifestation in non-Western cultures has hitherto been given little consideration.
Modern Women in China and Japan: Gender, Feminism and Global Modernity Between the Wars offers a very welcome new perspective into the role of women in Asia during the era of first-wave feminism. The choice of the six women - whose lives and works are the book's focus - is particularly inspired: the inclusion of both Asian women influenced by European and American culture (Sophia Chen Zen, Uno Chiyo) and Western women living in East Asia (Pearl Buck, Stella Benson, Caroline Bache McMahon, Lilian May Miller) allows for the discussion of culturally specific concepts of gender, yet at the same time highlights the crucial part intercultural exchange played in the global rise of the 'modern woman'.
Incisive and insightful, Modern Women in China and Japan is a rewarding book for those interested in history, literature and gender alike.
Modern Women in China and Japan: Gender, Feminism and Global Modernity Between the Wars offers a very welcome new perspective into the role of women in Asia during the era of first-wave feminism. The choice of the six women - whose lives and works are the book's focus - is particularly inspired: the inclusion of both Asian women influenced by European and American culture (Sophia Chen Zen, Uno Chiyo) and Western women living in East Asia (Pearl Buck, Stella Benson, Caroline Bache McMahon, Lilian May Miller) allows for the discussion of culturally specific concepts of gender, yet at the same time highlights the crucial part intercultural exchange played in the global rise of the 'modern woman'.
Incisive and insightful, Modern Women in China and Japan is a rewarding book for those interested in history, literature and gender alike.
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