Imagine a woman

Author: Yao Daimei
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book is the author's doctoral dissertation, employing narrative theory as a methodology. It interprets the female images in Shanghai-style fiction from the late Qing Dynasty to the entire Republican period from the perspective of cultural/gender imagination. Supported by extensive historical materials, it examines the relationship between the female images in Shanghai-style fiction and the modernity of Shanghai/the city. It elucidates the multiple connotations of "female image" in terms of Shanghai-style cultural construction and gender identity, and also discusses how the understanding of female characters in Shanghai-style fiction continuously deepens. Thus, it presents the unique way and significance of Shanghai-style fiction in participating in the narrative of modernity in 20th-century China.