Fei-Wen Liu

Gendered Words (eBook, ePUB)

Sentiments and Expression in Changing Rural China

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Built on twenty years of fieldwork in rural Jiangyong of Hunan Province in south China, this book explores the world's only gender-defined and now disappearing "women's script" known as nüshu. The book addresses questions such as what drove peasant women to create a script of their own and write, and how do those writings throw new light on how gender is addressed in epistemology and historiography. With the concept of "expressive depths," this book opens a new vista on how women express themselves through multiple forms that simultaneously echo and critique the mainstream social system and urges a rethinking of how forms of expression define and confine the voice carried.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190272913
• Artikelnr.: 42832362

Autorenporträt

Fei-wen Liu is Associate Research Fellow and Museum Curator at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica. She has conducted fieldwork in rural south China on the world's only gender-defined and now disappearing "women's script" known as nüshu since 1992. She has published in many flagship journals of the concerning fields: Journal of Asian Studies, Modern China, American Ethnologist, Journal of American Folklore, etc.; and has produced a nüshu documentary entitled Calling and Recalling: The Sentiments of Nüshu.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
1. Discovery and Encounter
2. Text and Practice
3. Tang Baozhen: I Sing and Therefore I am and Become
4. He Yanxin: Calling and Recalling the Sentiments of Nushu
5. Hu Xinkui: Child Bride, Party Cadre, Housewife
6. Hu Meiyue: At the Crossroads between Tradition and Modernity
7. Conclusions: Subjectivity, Expression and Prospects
Glossary
Bibliography