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Family revolution : marital strife in contemporary Chinese literature and visual culture /

"As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution--an overhaul of family structure, marital practices, and gender relationships. While the nuclear family has become a privileged realm of romance and individualism sym...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Xiao, Hui Faye (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2014]
Colección:Modern language initiative.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface; Introduction: Family Revolution, Divorce Representations; 1. Divorcing the Rural: Miss Science and Marital Crisis in the Reform Era; 2. Midlife Crisis and Misogynist Rhetoric: Male Intellectuals' Divorce Narratives; 3. Utopia or Dystopia?: The Sisterhood of Divorced Women; 4. What Quality Do Chinese Wives Lack? Performing Middle-Classness in Chinese-Style Divorce; 5. Seeking Second Chances in a Risk Society: The Cinema of Divorce in the New Millennium; 6. A New Divorce Culture: Rupture and Reconstruction; Appendix 1: Television Dramas about Divorce, 1990-2010.
  • Appendix 2: Feature Films about Divorce, 2000-2010Notes; Bibliography; Index.