Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood In Modern China

Untamed Shrews traces the evolution of unruly women in Chinese literature, from the reviled shrew" to the celebrated "new woman." Yang shows that the violent, jealous, and promiscuous shrew archetype of imperial times transformed into a symbol of empowerment in Republican and Communist China"--

• | Author: Shu Yang
• | Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
• | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 252 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1501770616
• | ISBN-13: 9781501770616