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10%OFFHui Faye Xiao - Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture (Modern Literature Initiative) - 9780295993508 - V9780295993508
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Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture (Modern Literature Initiative)

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Description for Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture (Modern Literature Initiative) Paperback. As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution. Reading popular "divorce narratives" in fiction, film, and TV drama, this book shows that the representation of marital discord has become a cultural battleground for competing ideologies within post-revolutionary China. Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.

As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution—an overhaul of family structure, marital practices, and gender relationships. While the nuclear family has become a privileged realm of romance and individualism symbolizing the post-revolutionary “freedoms” of economic and affective autonomy, women’s roles in particular have been transformed, with the ideal “iron girl” of socialism replaced by the feminine, family-oriented “good wife and wise mother.”

Problems and contradictions in this new domestic culture have been exposed by China's soaring divorce rate. Reading popular “divorce narratives” in fiction, film, and TV ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
Series
Modern Language Initiative Books
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295993508
SKU
V9780295993508
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Hui Faye Xiao
Hui Faye Xiao is assistant professor of modern Chinese literature and culture at the University of Kansas.

Reviews for Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture (Modern Literature Initiative)
"For those who do not study contemporary China or for those who need English translations or subtitles to gain access to these stories and films, this book is a gold mine...[B]ecause Xiao so frequently engages European social theory and film criticism, the book addresses the urgent need to integrate Chinese experiences and analyses into intellectual discourse that focuses primarily on ... Read more

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