Women Stereotypes in Shi Zhecun’s Short Stories

Bibliographic Data

ID6008418
AuthorsChristopher Rosenmeier (The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK,, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume37
Issue1
Pages44-68
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueModern China (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0097700410384575
PMID21174890
OpenAlexW2165539906
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

This article analyses the representation of women in two 1933 short story collections by Shi Zhecun: An Evening of Spring Rain and Exemplary Conduct of Virtuous Women. It discusses how the New Woman image was a site of contestation in Republican China, and argues that Shi Zhecun’s short stories contain four basic stereotypes: the enigmatic woman, the estranged wife, the prostitute, and the inhibited woman. Using these narratives of women and how they were perceived by men, Shi Zhecun deconstructed the New Woman image by subverting the various ways modernity was projected onto women

Aesthetics · Art · China · Evening · Literature · Modernity · Narrative · Political science · Representation (politics · Sociology · Wife · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law

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