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'British Chinese Writings: Subjectivity, Identity and Hybridity' is a study of British Chinese literature. As Dr Hsiao points out, investigation of British Chinese writings is a little studied area; however, since the political, social and historical factors affecting this group of literature are unique, British Chinese publications deserve close examination. The author Dr Yun-Hua Hsiao is an assistant professor at the Graduate Institute of Children's English and Department of English, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan. Readership The primary market of this book aims at the British Chinese, British people, the diasporic Chinese and readers concerned about the issue of race and culture. This research will also satisfy the curiosity of the general public about the British Chinese world. Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Matrilineage and the garden in Liu Hong's The Magpie Bridge Power and Women in Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet Food and Identity in Helen Tse's Sweet Mandarin Conclusion Bibliography
The past few years have seen a burgeoning effort to rethink questions of women, writing, and gender in modern China. Here 22 works of fiction, drama, autobiography, essays, and poetry, each prefaced by the author's photograph and a short biographical sketch, introduce women whose literary careers coincided with an era of tremendous social, political, and cultural turbulence. 18 illustrations.
From succinct reportage of contemporary historical circumstances to comic accounts of twentieth-century urban living to carefully stylized modernist works of fiction, the selections in this anthology reflect the diversity, liveliness, humor, and surprising cosmopolitanism of women's writing from the period. This collection also reveals the ways in which women writers imagined and inscribed new meanings to Chinese feminism. Also included are biographical information on the writers, bibliographical materials, and a critical introduction by Dooling.
This dissertation examines the writings of eight British women---Florence Ayscough, Ann Bridge, Dorothea Hosie, Emily Kemp, Alicia Bewicke Little, Annie Parsons, Charlotte Tippet, and Dora Wedlock---who resided in and wrote about China between 1890 and 1940. This fifty-year period was a tumultuous time in Britain's semicolonial relationship with China, beginning with increasing anti-foreign violence that lead to the Boxer Uprising of 1900 and ending with the Japanese invasion of China and the internment of British residents during World War II. The ambiguity and uncertainty of the British-Chinese relationship is reflected in the writings of these eight British residents, who came from a variety of backgrounds, resided in China for different reasons, wrote in various genres, and held differing opinions on the subject of Britain's actual and ideal relationship with China. Yet, underlying these important differences, the eight women in this study shared the conviction that, as British residents of China, their perspective of China and of the British presence in China was different from the perspective of the visiting travel writer or the academic Sinologist. As participants, however active, in the semicolonial relationship between the two countries, these eight writers felt they had special insight into that relationship. Moreover, as women writers, they were both complicit with and potential critics of a semicolonial system dominated by men. Foreign residents in a sovereign nation, women in an expatriate culture dominated by men, these writers saw themselves as outsiders---observers of a culture generally portrayed as quite unlike and alien to their home culture. On the other hand, as residents in a country under significant British influence, they could also claim an insider's perspective on both the Chinese and the resident British communities. Each writer in this study positions herself as an authority on China because, rather than in spite, of these complicated and ambiguous subject positions. Although recent studies have tended to categorize resident writers with travel writers, this study will demonstrate that these women's residential status gave their writing a perceived authority that is different from the authority claimed by visiting travel writers.
This rich collection of writings--many translated especially for this volume and some available in English for the first time--provides a journey through the history of Chinese culture, tracing the Chinese understanding of women as elucidated in writings spanning more than two thousand years. From the earliest oracle bone inscriptions of the Pre-Qin period through the poems and stories of the Song Dynasty, these works shed light on Chinese images of women and their roles in society in terms of such topics as human nature, cosmology, gender, and virtue.
When Deng Xiaoping’s efforts to “open up” China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was given clearance to host a radio call-in show, she barely anticipated the enthusiasm it would quickly generate. Operating within the constraints imposed by government censors, “Words on the Night Breeze” sparked a tremendous outpouring, and the hours of tape on her answering machines were soon filled every night. Whether angry or muted, posing questions or simply relating experiences, these anonymous women bore witness to decades of civil strife, and of halting attempts at self-understanding in a painfully restrictive society. In this collection, by turns heartrending and inspiring, Xinran brings us the stories that affected her most, and offers a graphically detailed, altogether unprecedented work of oral history.
In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years. This five-volume reset edition draws together British travel writings about China throughout the next century. The collection ends with the Boxer Uprising which marked the beginning of the end of informal British empire on the Chinese mainland.
This collection reveals many forms of servitude that Chinese women have endured, and the avenues of escape open to some of them. The authors are anthropologists, historians and sociologists, but the book is enriched also by contributions from the participants - a social worker, a mui tsai, and a colonial civil servant. The chapters are based on original documentary or oral research and personal experience, and, throughout the book, the voices of the women, their owners and their missionary rescuers can be clearly heard.