Imagining sisterhood in modern Chinese texts, 1890-1937 9781498536295, 1498536298
Introduction: gender, nation, subjectivities, and the discourse on sisterhood in modern China -- The emergence of the &q
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Table of contents :
Introduction: Gender, Nation, Subjectivities, and the Discourse on Sisterhood in Modern ChinaChapter 1 The Emergence of the "Women's Sphere" and the Promotion of Sisterhood in the Late QingChapter 2 From Dual Slaves to Liberty Flowers: The Feminist-Nationalist Spectrum of Sisterhood in Stones of the Jingwei Bird and Chivalric BeautiesChapter 3 Is Blood Always Thicker than Water? Rival Sisters and the Tensions of ModernityChapter 4 Cosmopolitan Bourgeois Sisterhood and the Ambiguities of Female-Centeredness in Lin Loon Magazine (1931-1937)Chapter 5 Sisterly Lovers in Women's Fiction and the Potential of "Nondevelopment" as a Feminist InterventionConclusion
