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Gender in post-Mao China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2003

JEANNE HONG ZHANG
JEANNE HONG ZHANG
Affiliation:
Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, PO Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Post-Mao gender discourse readjusts a politicized vision of gender based on Maoist ethics. While rejecting revolutionary concepts of sex equality, contemporary Chinese women embrace a notion of femininity through the revision of a traditional conception of womanhood as well as the construction of new role models. Women poets participate in this construction process with a fresh, powerful voice to express their gender consciousness. In their efforts to (re-)define womanhood, they present by poetic means radically gendered perspectives.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Review , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , May 2003 , pp. 209 - 224
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2003

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