Through both cultural and literary analysis, this book examines gender in relation to late Qing and modern Chinese intellectuals, including Mu Shiying, Bai Wei, and Lu Xun. Tackling important, previously neglected questions, Zhu ultimately shows the resilience and malleability of Chinese modernity through its progressive views on femininity.

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Ping Zhu is Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of Oklahoma, USA.

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Introduction: The Feminine at Large 1. The Empowered Feminine: Gender, Racial and Nationalist Discourses 2. The Anamorphic Feminine: History, Memory, and Woman in Lu Xun's Writings 3. The Affective Feminine: Mourning Women and the New Nationalist Subject 4. The Cosmopolitan Feminine: The Modern Girl and Her Male Other in the New-Sensationalist Fiction 5. The Revolutionary Feminine: The Transformation of "Women's Literature" Conclusion: The Feminine and Early Chinese Feminism