Fei-Wen Liu

Biographic Data

ID3634885
NAMEFei-Wen Liu
GIVEN NAMESFei-Wen
FAMILY NAMELiu
SIGNATURELIU F
AFFILIATIONSInstitute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, 128 Academia Road, Section 2, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS12
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX2

  • "Practice and Cultural Politics of "Women's Script

    Fei‐wen Liu, Fei-Wen LiuARTICLEAngelaki2017Cited by: 1References: 11

    A script traditionally used exclusively among women, nüshu (women's writing), was first identified in southern rural China in 1982. Its discovery opened a new window onto women's lifeworlds and drew many scholars to explore its ethnographic and theoretical significance. Local authorities paid no attention to this "women's script" until the 2000s. Scholarly investigation and governmental involvement over the past three decades have shaped nüshu's …

  • Expressive Depths

    Fei‐wen Liu, Fei-Wen LiuARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2012Cited by: 2References: 17

    Research Article| April 01 2012 Expressive Depths: Dialogic Performance of Bridal Lamentation in Rural South China Fei-Wen Liu Fei-Wen Liu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2012) 125 (496): 204–225. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.125.496.0204 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Fei-Wen Liu; Expressive Depths: Dialogic Performance of Bridal Lamentation i…

  • Text, Practice, and Life Narrative

    Open AccessFei‐wen Liu, Fei-Wen LiuARTICLEModern China2011Cited by: 3References: 25

    This article explores, through the lenses of text, practice, and life narrative, how Chinese peasant women as daughters manage patrilocality and carry out—or fail to carry out—filial piety toward their parents. Based on field research in a locale in southern China conducted since 1992, this article focuses on four women’s life histories and juxtaposes how these women articulated filial piety as daughter-brides in wedding lamentations and how they…

  • Heroines of Jiangyong

    Fei‐wen Liu, Fei-Wen LiuARTICLENAN Nü2010

    172 Reviews / Nan Nü 12 (2010) 142-174 Wilt L. Idema. Heroines of Jiangyong: Chinese Narrative Ballads in Women’s Script . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. viii +181 pp. US$60.00 cloth, ISBN 978-0-295-98841-2; US$25.00 paper, ISBN 978-0-295-98842. Wilt Idema’s Heroines of Jiangyong is the fi rst English translation of a set of nüshu ⤛㚠 (female literature) verse narratives.  e term nüshu refers to a gender-specifi c writing system c…

  • Literacy, Gender, and Class

    Fei-Wen LiuARTICLENAN Nü2004

    In this article, I investigate how peasant women in Jiangyong County of southern Hunan defined and practiced a female-specific written script known as nüshu ('female writing'). With an emphasis on sisterhood relationships, I explore how women employed nüshu to construct meaning, experience autonomy, and acknowledge the androcentric impositions made upon them, which in turn highlights the dual nature of nüshu literacy. On the one hand, nüshu empow…

  • The Confrontation between Fidelity and Fertility

    Open AccessFei-Wen LiuARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies2001Cited by: 6References: 34

    These words were expressed by Gangzhen and Cizhu, two peasant women born in the early twentieth century who lived in two villages in Jiangyong County of Hunan Province in southern China. When confronted with the loss of their husbands, these women relied on local tools familiar to women in this area-nügeandnüshu-to articulate their thoughts and emotions.Nüge(literally, "female song"), which includes bridal laments and folk narratives, was widely …