Wendy Larson
Biographic Data
| ID | 145359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy Larson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy |
| FAMILY NAME | Larson |
| SIGNATURE | LARSON W |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. John's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Optimism, Literature, and Culture in American Capitalism and Chinese Socialism
This book examines and interprets the uncanny similarity between capitalism and socialism over the twentieth century as both systems found ways to encourage happiness and optimism in their citizens. As inheritors of the Enlightenment emphasis on scientific rationality, these cultures sought to instill in their citizens the belief in progress, settling on a future-oriented optimism as the favored state of mind. When progress as a theory of history…
A Companion to Birgitta of Sweden and Her Legacy in the Later Middle Ages
Tributes to Jingyuan Zhang and Psychoanalysis in China
The Concubine and the Figure of History: Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine
The Life of Saint Katherine of Alexandria
A Companion to Julian of Norwich
Contents, Vol. 11, 1968
Adolescent Concepts of Social Sex Roles in the United States and the Two Germanies
From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China
When Freudian sexual theory hit China in the early 20th century, it ran up against competing models of the mind from both Chinese tradition and the new revolutionary culture. Chinese theorists of the mind—both traditional intellectuals and revolutionary psychologists— steadily put forward the anti-Freud: a mind shaped not by deep interiority that must be excavated by professionals, but shaped instead by social and cultural interactions. Chinese n…
From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China
When Freudian sexual theory hit China in the early twentieth century, it ran up against competing models of the mind from both Chinese tradition and the new revolutionary culture. Chinese theorists of the mind—both traditional intellectuals and revolutionary psychologists—steadily put forward the anti-Freud: a mind shaped not by deep interiority that must be excavated by professionals, but shaped instead by social and cultural interactions. Chine…
Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950 . Haiyan Lee
Medieval Virginities
The Self Loving the Self: Men and Connoisseurship in Modern Chinese Literature
The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval England . Katherine J. Lewis
The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling . Kirk A. Denton
The Excluded Wife
Never This Wild: Sexing the Cultural Revolution
Women and Writing in Modern China
Introduction 1. Women, writing, and the discourse of nationalism 2. Woman, moral virtue, and literary text 3. The body and the text 4. The new woman and the new literature 5. Women's writing and social engagement Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics and Politics in Twentieth-Century China
Women and Writing in Modern China
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. Throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties, women's moral virtue, or de, developed as a physical ordeal that meant sacrifices in the areas of freedom of movement (seclusion in either the father's or husband's hous…
Women and the Discourse of Desire in Postrevolutionary China: The Awkward Postmodernism of Chen Ran
Since the death of Mao in 1976, feminism in China has worked in four ways. The first way is in the practice of advocacy, engagement, and change characterized by the socialist approach to gender problems under Mao. This continuing legacy, which is aimed toward eliminating inequalities in social life, focuses on assuring girls' and women's educational opportunities, providing economic security, eradicating prostitution, and modifying other forms of…
Modernization of the Chinese Past. Mabel Lee , A. D. Syrokomla-Stefanowska
Inside Out: Modernism and Postmodernism in Chinese Literary Culture
This collection of papers is the outcome of the symposium Modernism and Postmodernism in Chinese Literature, which took place at Aarhus University, Denmark in October 1991, was arranged by Bei Dao and Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg of the Institute of East Asian Studies. One of the guiding ideas behind this initiative was to bring together scholars from Europe and America with China in the 1980s, as scholars, critics, editors or as writers. Those who st…
Between Fact and Fiction: Essays on Post-Mao Chinese Literature and Society. Kam Louie
Bolshevik Salute: A Modernist Chinese Novel
Never This Wild: Sexing the Cultural Revolution
Women and Writing in Modern China
Introduction 1. Women, writing, and the discourse of nationalism 2. Woman, moral virtue, and literary text 3. The body and the text 4. The new woman and the new literature 5. Women's writing and social engagement Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Women and the Discourse of Desire in Postrevolutionary China: The Awkward Postmodernism of Chen Ran
Since the death of Mao in 1976, feminism in China has worked in four ways. The first way is in the practice of advocacy, engagement, and change characterized by the socialist approach to gender problems under Mao. This continuing legacy, which is aimed toward eliminating inequalities in social life, focuses on assuring girls' and women's educational opportunities, providing economic security, eradicating prostitution, and modifying other forms of…
China's Writers, the Nobel Prize, and the International Politics of Literature
Bolshevik Salute: A Modernist Chinese Novel
Between Fact and Fiction: Essays on Post-Mao Chinese Literature and Society. Kam Louie
Inside Out: Modernism and Postmodernism in Chinese Literary Culture
This collection of papers is the outcome of the symposium Modernism and Postmodernism in Chinese Literature, which took place at Aarhus University, Denmark in October 1991, was arranged by Bei Dao and Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg of the Institute of East Asian Studies. One of the guiding ideas behind this initiative was to bring together scholars from Europe and America with China in the 1980s, as scholars, critics, editors or as writers. Those who st…
Modernization of the Chinese Past. Mabel Lee , A. D. Syrokomla-Stefanowska
Women and the Discourse of Desire in Postrevolutionary China: The Awkward Postmodernism of Chen Ran
Since the death of Mao in 1976, feminism in China has worked in four ways. The first way is in the practice of advocacy, engagement, and change characterized by the socialist approach to gender problems under Mao. This continuing legacy, which is aimed toward eliminating inequalities in social life, focuses on assuring girls' and women's educational opportunities, providing economic security, eradicating prostitution, and modifying other forms of…
The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics and Politics in Twentieth-Century China
Women and Writing in Modern China
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. Throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties, women's moral virtue, or de, developed as a physical ordeal that meant sacrifices in the areas of freedom of movement (seclusion in either the father's or husband's hous…
Never This Wild: Sexing the Cultural Revolution
Women and Writing in Modern China
Introduction 1. Women, writing, and the discourse of nationalism 2. Woman, moral virtue, and literary text 3. The body and the text 4. The new woman and the new literature 5. Women's writing and social engagement Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling . Kirk A. Denton
The Excluded Wife
The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval England . Katherine J. Lewis
The Self Loving the Self: Men and Connoisseurship in Modern Chinese Literature
Medieval Virginities
From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China
When Freudian sexual theory hit China in the early twentieth century, it ran up against competing models of the mind from both Chinese tradition and the new revolutionary culture. Chinese theorists of the mind—both traditional intellectuals and revolutionary psychologists—steadily put forward the anti-Freud: a mind shaped not by deep interiority that must be excavated by professionals, but shaped instead by social and cultural interactions. Chine…
Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950 . Haiyan Lee
Contents, Vol. 11, 1968
Adolescent Concepts of Social Sex Roles in the United States and the Two Germanies
From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China
When Freudian sexual theory hit China in the early 20th century, it ran up against competing models of the mind from both Chinese tradition and the new revolutionary culture. Chinese theorists of the mind—both traditional intellectuals and revolutionary psychologists— steadily put forward the anti-Freud: a mind shaped not by deep interiority that must be excavated by professionals, but shaped instead by social and cultural interactions. Chinese n…
A Companion to Julian of Norwich
The Life of Saint Katherine of Alexandria
The Concubine and the Figure of History: Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine
Tributes to Jingyuan Zhang and Psychoanalysis in China
A Companion to Birgitta of Sweden and Her Legacy in the Later Middle Ages
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