From “Good Women” to “Bad Girls”? China’s (Not-So-New) New Generation of Female Writers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12920076 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adele Lee (0000-0003-3653-682X, Emerson College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | vpw018-vpw018 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Women s Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-1476 • E-ISSN: 1754-1484 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/cww/vpw018 |
| OpenAlex | W2513229918 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
China’s so-called “new, new generation” appears to give voice to a fashionable, liberated, and cosmopolitan group, and writers such as Weihui Zhou and Xiaolu Guo have been lauded as symbols of contemporary transnational mobility. However, upon closer inspection, their writing bears many of the generic hallmarks of previous Chinese women’s writing, including “scar literature,” and a surprising number of thematic and stylistic continuities obtain. By unearthing the recurrence of certain patterns, themes, and images from generation to generation, this article challenges the assumption that these writers are, as Youna Kim states, “the new signifiers of change or self-expressive icons of hybridity with endless possibilities for self-creation” (8) and questions the extent to which these women fracture the parameters of identity imposed by the nation state or inherited tradition
Aesthetics · Art · China · First generation · Hybridity · Identity (music · Literature · Sociology · State (computer science · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Chinese history and philosophy · Japanese History and Culture · Gender Studies · History
Modernity at large
The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction
Sexual / Textual Politics
Towards a Critical Theory of Chinese Narrative
Women Writers in Postsocialist China
Women and Writing in Modern China
Women’s Literary Feminism in Twentieth-Century China
"Personalized Writing" and Its Enthusiastic Critic
Who Is a Feminist? Understanding the Ambivalence towards Shanghai Baby , ‘Body Writing’ and Feminism in Post‐Women's Liberation China
Marketing Chinese women writers in the 1990s, or the politics of self-fashioning
Women and Writing in Modern China
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |