Women, War, Domesticity

Shanghai Literature and Popular Culture of the 1940s
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14242-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: China Studies

In December 1941, the fifth year in an all-scale cataclysmic Sino-Japanese war that devoured much of Eastern China, the city of Shanghai entered into an era of full occupation. This was the moment when a group of young women authors began writing and soon took over the cultural scene of the besieged metropolis.
Women, War, Domesticity reconstructs cultures of reading, writing, and publishing in the city of Shanghai during the three years and eight months of Japanese occupation. It specifically depicts the formation of a new cultural arena initiated by a group of women who not only wrote, edited, and published, but also took part in defining and transforming the structure of modern knowledge, discussing it in various public forums surrounding the print media, and, consequently, promoting themselves as authoritative cultural commentators of the era.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huang, Nicole

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Nicole Huang, Ph.D. (1998) in East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles, is Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature at University of Wisconsin, Madison. She co-edited and introduced a collection of essays by Eileen Chang titled Written on Water (New York, 2005).