"Among Western critical approaches, feminist criticism offers the most exciting promise, both for raising the level of critical analysis of Chinese texts, and for testing Western theories as they are applied cross-culturally. Gender Politics in Modern China provides convincing evidence of what can be done."—Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker, University of Michigan "Theoretically informed and sophisticated, the essays in this volume relflect ... Read moresome of the most creative and intelligent readings of twentieth-century Chinese fiction being produced in a number of venues. Taken as a group, they illustrate the variety of ways in which gender has been deployed by modern Chinese writers as textual and political strategy."—Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz Show Less