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Rethinking Theatrical Images Of The New Woman In China's Republian Era, Li Guo
Rethinking Theatrical Images Of The New Woman In China's Republian Era, Li Guo
Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications
In her article "Rethinking Theatrical Images of the New Woman in China's Republican Era" Li Guo analyses the multivalent representations of the New Woman and posits that they encompass a broad array of blended feminine identities following the introduction of Western literary and cultural trends into Chinese culture. The tensions between ideological discourses about nation, gender, and politics as revealed in the plays of the republican period reveal the many underlying cultural paradigms and the processes in which dramatists Sinicized foreign models of the New Woman to appeal to their domestic audiences. Guo explores how the playwrights' gendered viewpoints contribute …
Introduction To Asian Culture(S) And Globalization, I-Chun Wang, Li Guo
Introduction To Asian Culture(S) And Globalization, I-Chun Wang, Li Guo
Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications
Marshall McLuhan coined the term "the global village" associating globalized human experiences in an electronic age (4). Although transnational relations existed for many centuries, McLuhan predicted in the 1960s that new technologies not only facilitate the growth of international interconnectedness, cross-border exchanges, as well as trans-cultural phenomena, but also help foster cultural transactions. Referring to the dramatic and unprecedented break between the past and the present, tradition and modernity, Arjun Appadurai argues that media and migration have been two major forces impelling the circulation of world cultures (3). In the phenomenon of globalization, people from every part of the world …
Bibliography For The Study Of Asian Culture(S) And Globalization, Chien-Hang Lu, Li Guo, I-Chun Wang
Bibliography For The Study Of Asian Culture(S) And Globalization, Chien-Hang Lu, Li Guo, I-Chun Wang
Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications
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Review Essay: Negotiating The Traditional And The Modern: Chinese Women's Literature From The Late Imperial Period Through The Twentieth-Century, Li Guo
Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications
The three books above complement each other in their coverage of Chinese women's literary genres from the late fourteenth through the early twentieth century. The authors' theoretical inquiries invite consideration of the following questions: what meaning, if any, might a feminist imagination or approach have in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) eras, early and late Republican China (1911-1948), and beyond? What do these works have in common regarding the resituating of women's literary status, the reclamation of feminine agency, and the empowerment of female subjectivity in China's literary tradition? These books can be considered in dialogue with Western feminism …