Zhan Kai and Five “Novels of Women’s Liberation” of the Late Qing
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by Brill in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China
- Vol. 5 (4), 537-565
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11702-011-0141-y
Abstract
Zhan Kai’s 詹垲 (c. 1860–c. 1910) two novels about women’s liberation of 1907 (Zhongguo xin nühao中国新女豪 andNüzi quan女子权) are compared with each other and with three slightly earlier novels that could have been influences:Nü yuhua女狱花 of 1904,Nüwa shi女娲石 of 1904, andHuang Xiuqiu黄绣球 of 1905–7. An effort is made to show what he might have borrowed and what were the most original points in Zhan’s writing. One further issue is the reason he might have written two such similar novels. Finally his guidelines for readerly behavior are explored.Keywords
This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
- Chapter Nine. The mother Nü Xuebao versus the daughter Nü Xuebao: Generational differences between 1898 and 1902 women reformersPublished by Brill ,2008
- Foreign Travel through a Woman' Eyes: Shan Shili'sGuimao lüxing jiin Local and Global PerspectiveJournal of Asian Studies, 2006
- Cinderella's SistersPublished by University of California Press ,2005
- Inflecting Gender: Zhan Kai/Siqi Zhai's 'New Novels' and Courtesan SketchesNAN NÜ, 2004
- Talent, Virtue, and the Nation: Chinese Nationalisms and Female Subjectivities in the Early Twentieth CenturyThe American Historical Review, 2001
- Fin-de-Siècle SplendorPublished by Walter de Gruyter GmbH ,1997
- Reform and Revolution in China: The 1911 Revolution in Hunan and HubeiThe American Historical Review, 1977