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Embracing the Lie: Ding Ling and the Politics of Literature in the People's Republic of China » Read Now
by Charles J. Alber. 360 pgs.

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Women and Writing in Modern China (Discussion of Ding Ling in several chapters) » Read Now
by Wendy Larson. 267 pgs.

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Analyzing the protracted cultural debate in modern China over what and how women should write, this book focuses on two concepts of great importance in Chinese literary modernization - the new, liberated woman and the new, autonomous writing. The author argues that in many modernizing countries...
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Analyzing the protracted cultural debate in modern China over what and how women should write, this book focuses on two concepts of great importance in Chinese literary modernization - the new, liberated woman and the new, autonomous writing. The author argues that in many modernizing countries traditional constrictions of women became a focus of struggle, and improvements in the treatment of women were considered a sign of national health. In China, however, the traditional emphasis on female virtue and male talent led to protests by women writers against the virtuous woman. Their writings emphasized not the modernizing virtues of equality in love and marriage, nor the mother as educator of a generation of nation-builders, but unconventional relationships and the refusal to marry.
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Modern Chinese Women Writers: Critical Appraisals (Chap. 1 "Gender and Identity in Ding Ling's Mother") » Read Now
by Michael S. Duke. 276 pgs.

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Enduring the Revolution: Ding Ling and the Politics of Literature in Guomindang China » Read Now
by Charles J. Alber. 268 pgs.

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A Day, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars » Read Now
by Ding Ling, Gary Bjorge. 3 pgs.

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Modern Chinese Writers: Self-Portrayals ("Foolish Dreams: Like a Blind Person Going Fishing" by Ding Ling begins on p. 302) » Read Now
by Helmut Martin, Jeffrey Kinkley. 380 pgs.

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Chinese Modern: The Heroic and the Quotidian (Chap. 3 "Shanghai, Spring 1930: Engendering the Revolutionary Body") » Read Now
by Xiaobing Tang. 380 pgs.

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Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent twentieth century. Analyzing a rich array of literary, visual, theatrical, and cinematic texts, Xiaobing Tang portrays the cultural transformation of China from the early 1900s through the founding of...
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Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent twentieth century. Analyzing a rich array of literary, visual, theatrical, and cinematic texts, Xiaobing Tang portrays the cultural transformation of China from the early 1900s through the founding of the People's Republic, the installation of the socialist realist aesthetic, the collapse of the idea of utopia in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, and the gradual cannibalization of the socialist past by consumer culture at the century's end. Throughout, he highlights the dynamic tension between everyday life and the heroic ideal.
Tang uncovers crucial clues to modern Chinese literary and cultural practices through readings of Wu Jianren's 1906 novel The Sea of Regret and works by canonical writers Lu Xun, Ding Ling, and Ba Jin. For the mid-century, he broadens his investigation by considering theatrical, cinematic, and visual materials in addition to literary texts. His reading of the 1963 play The Young Generation reveals the anxiety and terror underlying the exhilarating new socialist life portrayed on the stage. This play, enormously influential when it first appeared, illustrates the utopian vision of China's lyrical age and its underlying discontents -- both of which are critical for understanding late-twentieth-century China. Tang closes with an examination of post-Cultural Revolution nostalgia for the passion of the lyrical age.
Throughout Chinese Modern Tang suggests a historical and imaginative affinity between apparently separate literatures and cultures. He thus illuminates not only Chinese modernity but also the condition of modernity as a whole, particularly inlight of the postmodern recognition that the market and commodity culture are both angel and devil. This elegantly written volume will be invaluable to students of China, Asian studies, literary criticism, and cultural studies,
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Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism ("Ding Ling: From Women To Revolution" begins on p. 66) » Read Now
by Tani E. Barlow. 314 pgs.

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Re-Encounters in China: Notes of a Journey in a Time Capsule ("Ting Ling" begins on p. 76) » Read Now
by Harold R. Isaacs. 198 pgs.

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Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949 (Ting Ling" begins on p. 266) » Read Now
by Joseph S. M. Lau, C. T. Hsia, Leo Ou-Fan Lee. 586 pgs.

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Revolutionary Literature in China: An Anthology ("Introduction to Ding Ling's 'A Day'" begins on p. 52) » Read Now
by John David Berninghausen, Ted Huters. 108 pgs.

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