Family revolution : marital strife in contemporary Chinese literature and visual culture

Family revolution : marital strife in contemporary Chinese literature and visual culture / Hui Faye Xiao.

"As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution--an overhaul of family structure, marital practices, and gender relationships. While the nuclear family has become a privileged realm of romance and individualism sym...

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Main Author: Xiao, Hui Faye (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2014]
Series:Modern language initiative.
Subjects:
Chinese literature > History and criticism.
Families in literature.
Marital conflict > China.
Marriage in literature.
Families > China.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > Chinese.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Marriage & Family.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
Chinese literature
Families
Families in literature
Marital conflict
Marriage in literature
China
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Introduction: Family Revolution, Divorce Representations; 1. Divorcing the Rural: Miss Science and Marital Crisis in the Reform Era; 2. Midlife Crisis and Misogynist Rhetoric: Male Intellectuals' Divorce Narratives; 3. Utopia or Dystopia?: The Sisterhood of Divorced Women; 4. What Quality Do Chinese Wives Lack? Performing Middle-Classness in Chinese-Style Divorce; 5. Seeking Second Chances in a Risk Society: The Cinema of Divorce in the New Millennium; 6. A New Divorce Culture: Rupture and Reconstruction; Appendix 1: Television Dramas about Divorce, 1990-2010.
  • Appendix 2: Feature Films about Divorce, 2000-2010Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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