The New Woman In Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction - Comparative Cultural Studies

Discusses representations of women in May Fourth fiction, issues of gender, modernity, individualism, subjectivity, and narrative strategy. In this thought-provoking book about a crucial period of Chinese literature, Feng argues that male writers created fictional women as mirror images of their own political inadequacy, but that at the same time this was an egocentric ploy to affirm and highlight the modernity of the male author.