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Changing Identities of Chinese Women: Rhetoric, Experience and Self-Perception in 20th Century China

by Elisabeth Croll

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Much more is known about prescribed female qualities, be they Confucian, Communist, or culturally Chinese, than about how it actually feels for Chinese women to live with that rhetoric and with the gap between rhetoric and experience. Based on self-portraits, personal narratives and remembered moments of girlhood, this daughter-centered study focuses on the changing reality of female lives during the country's republican, revolutionary and reform eras.… (more)
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Much more is known about prescribed female qualities, be they Confucian, Communist, or culturally Chinese, than about how it actually feels for Chinese women to live with that rhetoric and with the gap between rhetoric and experience. Based on self-portraits, personal narratives and remembered moments of girlhood, this daughter-centered study focuses on the changing reality of female lives during the country's republican, revolutionary and reform eras.

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