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Family Revolution

- Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture
Af: Hui Faye Xiao Engelsk Hardback

Family Revolution

- Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture
Af: Hui Faye Xiao Engelsk Hardback
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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 symbolizing the post-revolutionary “freedoms” of economic and affective autonomy, women’s roles in particular have been transformed, with the ideal “iron girl” of socialism replaced by the feminine, family-oriented “good wife and wise mother.”

Problems and contradictions in this new domestic culture have been exposed by China''s soaring divorce rate. Reading popular “divorce narratives” in fiction, film, and TV drama, Hui Faye Xiao shows that the representation of marital discord has become a cultural battleground for competing ideologies within post-revolutionary China. While these narratives present women’s cultivation of wifely and maternal qualities as the cure for family disintegration and social unrest, Xiao shows that they in fact reflect a problematic resurgence of traditional gender roles and a powerful mode of control over supposedly autonomous private life.

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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 symbolizing the post-revolutionary “freedoms” of economic and affective autonomy, women’s roles in particular have been transformed, with the ideal “iron girl” of socialism replaced by the feminine, family-oriented “good wife and wise mother.”

Problems and contradictions in this new domestic culture have been exposed by China''s soaring divorce rate. Reading popular “divorce narratives” in fiction, film, and TV drama, Hui Faye Xiao shows that the representation of marital discord has become a cultural battleground for competing ideologies within post-revolutionary China. While these narratives present women’s cultivation of wifely and maternal qualities as the cure for family disintegration and social unrest, Xiao shows that they in fact reflect a problematic resurgence of traditional gender roles and a powerful mode of control over supposedly autonomous private life.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9780295993492
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0295993499
Kategori: Litteraturstudier: fra 1900 til 2000
Udg. Dato: 1 apr 2014
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: University of Washington Press
Oplagsdato: 1 apr 2014
Forfatter(e): Hui Faye Xiao
Forfatter(e) Hui Faye Xiao

Kategori Litteraturstudier: fra 1900 til 2000

ISBN-13 9780295993492

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 224

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 1 apr 2014

Oplagsdato 1 apr 2014

Forlag University of Washington Press