Gender Hierarchy Of Masculinity And Femininity During The Chinese Cultural Revolution

Author : Zhuying Li
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000220958
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Hierarchy of Masculinity and Femininity during the Chinese Cultural Revolution written by Zhuying Li and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the influence of Maoist ideology and masculinist power on the representations of women in revolutionary opera films made during the Cultural Revolution, this book considers the gendered hierarchy between masculinity and femininity in relation to the historic and cultural context in which they were made. Using feminist methodology and epistemology to locate women’s social identity, this book explores the sociological connections between the masculinisation of women and masculinist domination in the context of the Cultural Revolution. Through film analysis, the author examines whether women, rather than 'liberated', were in fact re-gendered and oppressed by masculinist power. By critically evaluating gender hierarchy during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the book provides hitherto neglected insights into gender within its social and cultural context. This an interdisciplinary book which should appeal to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including gender studies, Asian studies, China studies, cultural studies and film studies.

Author : Susan Brownell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520221161
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities written by Susan Brownell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-01-07 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Literature: Lydia H. Liu

Author : Kam Louie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521806213
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorising Chinese Masculinity written by Kam Louie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Chinese masculinity. Kam Louie uses the concepts of wen (cultural attainment) and wu (martial valour) to explain attitudes to masculinity. This revises most Western analyses of Asian masculinity that rely on the yin-yang binary. Examining classical and contemporary Chinese literature and film, the book also looks at the Chinese diaspora to consider Chinese masculinity within and outside China.

Author : Gail Hershatter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520098560
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in China's Long Twentieth Century written by Gail Hershatter and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An important and much-needed introduction to this rich and fast-growing field. Hershatter has handled a daunting task with aplomb.” —Susan L. Glosser, author of Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915–1953

Author : Xin Huang
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438470622
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gender Legacy of the Mao Era written by Xin Huang and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows that the feminist interventions of the Mao era (1949–1976) continue to influence contemporary Chinese women. This book traces how the legacy of the Maoist gender project is experienced or contested by particular Chinese women, remembered or forgotten in their lives, and highlighted or buried in their narratives. Xin Huang examines four women’s life stories: an urban woman who lived through the Mao era (1949–1976), a rural migrant worker, a lesbian artist who has close connections with transnational queer networks, and an urban woman who has lived abroad. The individual narratives are paired with analysis of the historical and social contexts in which each woman lives. Huang focuses on the shifting relationship between gender and class, fashion and shame in the Mao and post-Mao eras, queer desire and artwork, and contemporary transnational encounters. By rethinking the historical significance and contemporary relevance of one of the twentieth century’s major feminist interventions—socialist and Marxist women’s liberation during the Mao years—The Gender Legacy of the Mao Era provides insight into current struggles over gender equality in China and around the world. Xin Huang is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Author : Kay Ann Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226401944
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China written by Kay Ann Johnson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims. Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place in Chinese society. Conversant with current theory in political science, anthropology, and Marxist and feminist analysis, Johnson writes with clarity and discernment free of dogma. Her discussions of family reform ultimately provide insights into the Chinese government's concern with decreasing the national birth rate, which has become a top priority. Johnson's predictions of a coming crisis in population control are borne out by the recent increase in female infanticide and the government abortion campaign.

Author : Xueping Zhong
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813529691
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some of Us written by Xueping Zhong and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of Us is a collection of memoirs by nine Chinese women who grew up during the Mao era. All hail from urban backgrounds and all have obtained their Ph.D.s in the United States; thus, their memories are informed by intellectual training and insights that only distance can allow. Each of the chapters--arranged by the age of the author--is crafted by a writer who reflects back to that time in a more nuanced manner than has been possible for Western observers. The authors attend to gender in a way that male writers have barely noticed and reflect on their lives in the United States.

Author : Rosemary A. Roberts
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004177442
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maoist Model Theatre written by Rosemary A. Roberts and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a convincing reflection that changes our understanding of gender in Maoist culture, esp. for what critics from the 1990s onwards have termed its erasure of gender and sexuality. In particular the strong heroines of the yangbanxi, or model works which dominated the Cultural Revolution period, have been seen as genderless revolutionaries whose images were damaging to women. Drawing on contemporary theories ranging from literary and cultural studies to sociology, this book challenges that established view through detailed semiotic analysis of theatrical systems of the yangbanxi including costume, props, kinesics, and various audio and linguistic systems. Acknowledging the complex interplay of traditional, modern, Chinese and foreign gender ideologies as manifest in the 'model works', it fundamentally changes our insights into gender in Maoist culture.

Author : Beverly Jo Bossler
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029580601X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Chinese History written by Beverly Jo Bossler and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the 1980s, a common narrative about women in China had been one of victimization: women had dutifully endured a patriarchal civilization for thousands of years, living cloistered, uneducated lives separate from the larger social and cultural world, until they were liberated by political upheavals in the twentieth century. Rich scholarship on gender in China has since complicated the picture of women in Chinese society, revealing the roles women have played as active agents in their families, businesses, and artistic communities. The essays in this collection go further by assessing the ways in which the study of gender has changed our understanding of Chinese history and showing how the study of gender in China challenges our assumptions about China, the past, and gender itself.

Author : Harriet Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107662389
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender in Flux written by Harriet Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on recent research and insights from political activism, the volume explores changing manifestations and articulations of gender in China.