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The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism (Breaking Feminist Waves)
Ya-Chen Chen
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Hardcover. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSJ1; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 458.
In the current English-language publication market, this book is one of the earliest academic monographs to comparatively investigate different feminist scholars and academic feminism across the Taiwan Strait. It problematizes recent scholarly understanding of feminist complexity in various Chinese-speaking areas. This book addresses sociocultural backgrounds of how Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong feminist scholars strategize their transfers, localization, and acculturation of Western feminist literary theories. It emphasizes how Chinese literary theorists filter, gate-keep, select, import latest Western feminist theories, and then match them with local socio-cultural trends by exerting comparative researchers' cross-cultural and cross-lingual academic power in order to ... Read more
In the current English-language publication market, this book is one of the earliest academic monographs to comparatively investigate different feminist scholars and academic feminism across the Taiwan Strait. It problematizes recent scholarly understanding of feminist complexity in various Chinese-speaking areas. This book addresses sociocultural backgrounds of how Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong feminist scholars strategize their transfers, localization, and acculturation of Western feminist literary theories. It emphasizes how Chinese literary theorists filter, gate-keep, select, import latest Western feminist theories, and then match them with local socio-cultural trends by exerting comparative researchers' cross-cultural and cross-lingual academic power in order to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Series
Breaking Feminist Waves
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230104327
SKU
V9780230104327
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About Ya-Chen Chen
YA-CHEN Chen's academic interests include Sino-Western comparative literature, Asian Studies, women's and gender studies, (multi)cultural studies, and film studies. Cited as an emergent diversity scholar by the National Center of Institutional Diversity (NCID) at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (2010), Ya-chen Chen is the recipient of Fu Cheng Literary Award (1995), CCA (Council for Cultural Affairs) Modern Literary Research ... Read more
Reviews for The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism (Breaking Feminist Waves)
"Illuminating." - Hypatia "A welcome addition to the fields of Chinese history, gender and cultural studies. Anyone interested in these areas should have a copy." - Journal of Asian Studies "An important and distinct contribution to the understanding of feminism and, in particular, feminist scholarship in China." - The China Quarterly ... Read more