Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society

Tonglin Lu is Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Against the Lures of Disapora: Minority Discourse, Chinese Women, and Intellectual Hegemony
Rey Chow

2. Gendering the Origins of Modern Chinese Fiction
Yue Ming-Bao

3. The Language of Desire, Class, and Subjectivity in Lu Ling's Fiction
Liu Kang

4. Liu Heng's Fuxi Fuxi: What about Nuwa?
Marie-Claire Huot

5. Rape as Castration as Spectacle: The Price of Frenzy's Politics of Confusion
Elissa Rashkin

6. A Brave New World? On the Construction of "Masculinity" and "Femininity" in The Red Sorghum Family
Zhu Ling

7. Femininity as Imprisonment: Subjectivity, Agency, and Criminality in Ai Bei's Fiction
Margaret H. Decker

8. Sisterhood?: Representation of Women's Relationahips in Two Contemporary Chinese Texts
Zhong Xueping

9. Can Xue: What Is So Paranoid in Her Writings?
Tonglin Lu