Women, war, domesticity : Shanghai literature and popular culture of the 1940s / by Nicole Huang.

This book studies a burgeoning middlebrow culture championed and sustained by a group of women writers, editors, and publishers who began their careers in Shanghai in the early 1940s when the city entered into an era of total occupation by the Japanese.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Huang, Xincun, 1967-
Other title:Shanghai literature and popular culture of the 1940s.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
Series:China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 6.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Prologue
  • Travels of Scarlett O'Hara; Chapter One
  • Introduction: Written in the Ruins; Chapter Two
  • Fashioning Public Intellectuals: The Emergence of a Women's Print Culture; Chapter Three
  • Image Studios: The Art of a Women's Magazine; Chapter Four
  • Written on Water: Eileen Chang and the Modern Essay; Chapter Five
  • Ethnographies of Wartime: Autobiographical Fiction by Su Qing and Pan Liudai; Chapter Six
  • Garden of the Ruins: Shi Jimei's Domestic Fiction; Epilogue
  • Travels of Eileen Chang; Plates; Bibliography; Index.