Interweaving memories, self-perceptions and case studies with historical data, this unique book explores the female experience of rhetoric on identity in China. While focusing on the gap between changing rhetoric and experience for Chinese women in the Republican, revolutionary,…
This study of Chinese women will strike a chord with readers of Wild Swans and the work of Julia Kristeva. It describes how it actually feels for women to live with the rhetoric of prescribed female qualities, and the gap between that rhetoric and experience. Drawing on vivid se…
Interweaving memories, self-perceptions and case studies with historical data, this unique book explores the female experience of rhetoric on identity in China. While focusing on the gap between changing rhetoric and experience for Chinese women in the Republican, revolutionary,…
This study of Chinese women will strike a chord with readers of Wild Swans and the work of Julia Kristeva. It describes how it actually feels for women to live with the rhetoric of prescribed female qualities, and the gap between that rhetoric and experience. Drawing on vivid se…
