Women, War, Domesticity: Shanghai Literature and Popular Culture of the 1940s (China Studies) ebook

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Women, War, Domesticity reconstructs cultures of reading, writing, and publishing in the city of Shanghai during .

Women, War, Domesticity reconstructs cultures of reading, writing, and publishing in the city of Shanghai during the three years and eight months of Japanese occupation.

Series: China Studies (Book 6).

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Prologue - Travels of Scarlett O'Hara. Chapter One - Introduction: Written in the Ruins. Chapter Two - Fashioning Public Intellectuals: The Emergence of a Women's Print Culture. Chapter Three - Image Studios: The Art of a Women's Magazine. Chapter Four - Written on Water: Eileen Chang and the Modern Essay.

Women, War, Domesticity: Shanghai Literature and Popular Culture of the 1940s. Papers presented at the Second International Conference on Urban Popular Culture in Modern China, Chengdu, Sichuan, July 2007. Leidon & Boston: Brill Academic Publisher, 2005. War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Tao Juyin 陶菊隐. Gudao jianwen-kangzhan shiqi de Shanghai 孤岛见闻-抗战时期的上海 (The things I witnessed in island Shanghai). Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 1979.

Women, war, domesticity. Shanghai literature and popular culture of the 1940s. Includes bibliographical references (p. -271) and index. China studies - 6, China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) - 6. Other Titles

Women, war, domesticity. Published 2005 by Brill in Leiden, Boston. Other Titles. ix, 276 p. : Number of pages.

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Individual linguistic studies are first placed in their sociolinguistic and sociohistorical context. Women, War, Domesticity: Shanghai Literature and Popular Culture of the 1940s.

In December 1941, the fifth year in an all-scale cataclysmic Sino-Japanese war that devoured much of Eastern China, the city of Shanghai entered into an era of full occupation. This was the moment when a group of young women authors began writing and soon took over the cultural scene of the besieged metropolis.Women, War, Domesticity reconstructs cultures of reading, writing, and publishing in the city of Shanghai during the three years and eight months of Japanese occupation. It specifically depicts the formation of a new cultural arena initiated by a group of women who not only wrote, edited, and published, but also took part in defining and transforming the structure of modern knowledge, discussing it in various public forums surrounding the print media, and, consequently, promoting themselves as authoritative cultural commentators of the era.