From the Late Qing Dynasty to the May Fourth Movement: Modern Imagination, Construction and Literary Narrative of the Female Body
by Cheng Yali
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This book comprehensively examines the historical process of the female body being imagined and constructed by social discourse in the process of China becoming a nation-state from the late Qing Dynasty to the May Fourth Movement. It conducts a detailed and in-depth textual analysis of the metaphorical narrative mechanism and narrative form of the female body in late Qing Dynasty novels and May Fourth novels. It comprehensively presents the complex aspects of the companionship and interaction of the female body with discourses such as country, nation, revolution, enlightenment, and science. It also reveals the historical, cultural, and literary significance of women's transformation from objectification to subject construction.
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