
Writing Women in Modern China is the first major anthology in English to highlight the contributions of women to modern literary culture with respect to the heated gender debates of early twentieth-century China. Featuring examples of fiction, drama, autobiography,...

Introduces the works of less familiar women writers of the first three decades of the 20th century. The text also discusses work by more prominent authors from the late Qing (1890-1911) through to the Sino-Japanese war. The 22 works of fiction, drama, autobiogrphy, essays and...