Young Girl China

Girls in China: One Hundred Years of Written and Writing Schoolgirls

Hirata Shoji, Xia Xiaohong, Wang Anyi, and Dai Jinhua jointly recommend an adventurous journey of Chinese women in the 20th century, filled with ideals and hesitations, love and pain. After the May Fourth New Culture Movement in the 20th century, the predecessors were optimistic about the future of women: "I am my own," and "Chinese women will soon see the glorious dawn." But did female students who received new education truly achieve their ideals and possess their own selves? All the answers are in "Maiden China." -- In modern China, which achieved national prosperity at an unprecedented speed, "Chinese youth" and "new youth" became indispensable slogans to describe a new China. Since the Republic of China, bildungsroman depicting the growth of young people became popular. However, subconsciously, these "youth" often referred to men. Girls were sometimes encouraged to grow into useful talents; sometimes they were asked to return to the family and become a kind of support force in the rear. It can be said that women have long been a group obscured by cultural politics. Against the backdrop of the development of modern women's education, girls left their original families and had the opportunity for self-exploration to decide their future lifestyle. This book will analyze, based on specific literary works, how young women who left their original families found their footing in the hundred years from the May Fourth Movement to the present, and how their struggles were viewed by male writers.

2025-05-01

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