Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. The Language of Despair: Ideological Representations of the "New Woman" by May Fourth Writers 13
6. Invention and Intervention: The Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature 33
7. The End of "Funü Wenxue": Women's Literature from 1925 to 1935 58
8. Woman as Trope: Gender and Power in Lu Xun's "Soap" 74
9. Virtuous Transactions: A Reading of Three Stories by Ling Shuhua 90
10. Images of Subjugation and Defiance: Female Characters in the Early Dramas of Tian Han 106
11. Female Images and National Myth 118
12. Writing with Your Body: Literature as a Wound- Remarks on the Poetry of Shu Ting 137
13. Harmony and Equality: Notes on "Mimosa" and "Ark" 151
14. Three Interviews: Wang Anyi, Zhu Lin, Dai Ding 159
15. In the Translator's Eye: On the Significance of Zhu Lin 209
16. Yuan Qiongqiong and the Rage for Eileen Zhang Among Taiwan's. Feminine Writers 215
17. Taking Tiger Mountain: Can Xue's Resistance and Cultural Critique 238
18. Feminism in the Chinese Context: Li Ang's The Butcher's Wife¹ 266
19. Political Evaluation and Reevaluation in Contemporary Chinese Fiction 290
20. Notes on Contributors 304
21. Index 305