What does it mean to read from elsewhere?
Women Writers in Postsocialist China introduces
readers to a range and variety of contemporary Chinese
women’s writing, which has seen phenomenal growth in
recent years. The book addresses the different ways
women’s issues are understood in China and the West,
attending to the processes of translation, adaptation,
and the grafting of new ideas with existing Chinese
understandings of gender, feminism, subjectivity,
consumerism and (post) modernism. By focusing on women’s
autobiographical, biographical, fictional and historical
writing, the book engages in a transcultural flow of
ideas between western and indigenous Chinese feminisms.
Taking account of the accretions of social, cultural,
geographic, literary, economic, and political movements
and trends, cultural formations and ways of thinking, it
asks how the texts and the concepts they negotiate might
be understood in the social and cultural spaces within
China and how they might be interpreted differently
elsewhere in the global locations in which they
circulate. The book argues that women-centred writing in
China has a direct bearing on global feminist theory and
practice. This critical study of selected genres and
writers highlights the shifts in feminist perspectives
within contemporary local and global cultural
landscapes.
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