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Women in Recent Chinese Fiction—A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Yue Daiyun  and
Carolyn Wakeman
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Abstract

Women have assumed a prominent role in China's post–Cultural Revolutionary fiction, just as they did in the literature of the May Fourth period. Addressing issues that apply not just to women but by implication to society as a whole, writers like Zhang Jie and Zhang Xinxin experiment with new literary forms to describe the special problems that continue to afflict women: problems of male domination and discrimination and, in some ways more burdensome, problems of self-definition and self-fulfillment. Recognizing the obstacles to their equality, productivity, and happiness, they are somewhat disappointed and disillusioned about the new society in which they once fervently believed.

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Articles: Peasant Strategies in Asian Societies: Moral and Rational Economic Approaches—A Symposium
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , August 1983 , pp. 879 - 888
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Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983

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