Virgin widows /
Things just keep getting better and better. ... Well, don't they? If you are a woman and you live in China, to answer this question you will need not only to look around you but to look back, to see not just how things are now but how they once were. China has traveled a long and torturous road...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English Chinese |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press
©1996.
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| Series: | Fiction from modern China.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wqzn8 |
| Summary: | Things just keep getting better and better. ... Well, don't they? If you are a woman and you live in China, to answer this question you will need not only to look around you but to look back, to see not just how things are now but how they once were. China has traveled a long and torturous road since the collapse of the final imperial dynasty and the establishment of a modern republic early in this century; but have the nature of women's lives and their opportunities for just and equal treatment improved? Renowned writer Gu Hua confronts this issue in Virgin Widows, a poignant and disquieting novel that unfolds in alternating chapters the stories of two women whose lives, despite being separated by nearly a century, reveal a disturbing similarity. First published in China in 1985, it appears now in English for the first time. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (165 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| ISBN: | 0585250138 9780585250137 9780824865481 0824865480 0824817702 0824818024 9780824817701 9780824818029 |