Women and the Periodical Press in China's Long Twentieth Century
Synopsis
In this major new collection, an international team of scholars examine the relationship between the Chinese women's periodical press and global modernity in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The essays in this richly illustrated volume probe the ramifications for women of two monumental developments in this period: the intensification of China's encounters with foreign powers and a media transformation comparable in its impact to the current internet age. The book offers a distinctive methodology for studying the periodical press, which is supported by the development of a bilingual database of early Chinese periodicals. Throughout the study, essays on China are punctuated by transdisciplinary reflections from scholars working on periodicals outside of the Chinese context, encouraging readers to rethink common stereotypes about lived womanhood in modern China, and to reconsider the nature of Chinese modernity in a global context.
Presents the first close reading of the Chinese periodical press in a global, transregional and transdisciplinary context.
Proposes a distinctive new methodology for studying the periodical press.
Encourages readers to rethink issues of gender and genre in the digital age.
- Copyright:
- 2018 Cambridge University Press
Book Details
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- ISBN-13:
- 9781108329651
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 2018-06-15T16:04:04Z
- Language:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.