Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society

Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society written by Tonglin Lu and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Only women and inferior men are difficult to deal with." -- Confucius Two thousand years after Confucius, the contributors to this book ask if Chinese women have succeeded in changing their status as the equivalent of "inferior men." Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society approaches the role of women in social change through analyzing literature and culture during the May Fourth and the Post-Cultural Revolution periods.