Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China - Hardcover
by Shu Yang
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell East Asia SeriesISBN-13:9781501770616ISBN-10:1501770616UPC:9781501770616Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Women's StudiesBook Topic:Asian StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCPJWJ3PRA
Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China
Untamed Shrews traces the evolution of unruly women in Chinese literature, from the reviled "shrew" to the celebrated "new woman." Notorious for her violence, jealousy, and promiscuity, the character of the shrew personified the threat of unruly femininity to the Confucian social order and served as a justification for punishing any woman exhibiting these qualities. In this book, Shu Yang...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell East Asia SeriesISBN-13:9781501770616ISBN-10:1501770616UPC:9781501770616Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Women's StudiesBook Topic:Asian StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCPJWJ3PRA
Shu Yang is Assistant Professor and Advisor of Chinese in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University.
Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
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