East Asian Languages & Lits 262 - Representation of Women in Chinese Culture

Representations of women are often defined by how men see women or by how society expects women to look and behave. Many representations of women focused on women's emotions and their sexuality. As a socially and historically defined group, images of women played a crucial role in defining Chinese modernity. In the class, we will mainly study the representation of women in late imperial and modern China, exploring feminine and feminist literary ideology.