Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society

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Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society is written by Tonglin Lu and published by SUNY Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0791413713 (ISBN 10) and 9780791413715 (ISBN 13).

"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.