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Introduction To Forum: Nation, Gender, And Transnational Modernism, Ping Zhu, Li Guo
Introduction To Forum: Nation, Gender, And Transnational Modernism, Ping Zhu, Li Guo
Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications
This forum, sprouted from a thematic panel at the 2013 Annual Meeting of Association for Asian Studies in San Diego, situates its theoretical focus on the intersecting relationship between gender and nation in early twentieth-century China within a transcultural framework. Viewing both "gender" and "nation" as centrifugal sites for discursive production in modern China, the five contributors of this special issue probe into the complex cultural mechanism which placed gender at the center of the nationalist discourse. Reciprocally, the authors explore how the instability of both discourses on gender and nation opens up space for creating subversive cultural imaginaries and …
Writing Women In Northeastern China: Melancholic Narrative In Mei Niang's Novellas, Li Guo
Writing Women In Northeastern China: Melancholic Narrative In Mei Niang's Novellas, Li Guo
Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications
Mei Niang (1920–2013), the pen name of Sun Jiarui, is a female fiction writer, translator, and editor of Funü zazhi (Ladies’ journal). In the semi-colonial Northeast China, Mei Niang’s exploration of melancholic narratives shore up manifold levels of socio-historical discourses that are constructive of women’s subjectivity. Melancholic narrative functions as an inverted mirror of both the author’s cultural displacement from her diasporic experience, and her portrayal of colonial domination of local elites by the Japanese in Northeast China. Also, the author’s depiction of feminine melancholia revokes the modernist ideology of love and its constitutive male-centered discourses, dismantles the social disenfranchisement …