Co-editor, Different Worlds of Discourse: Transformations of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China. A collection of articles generated from the NEH-sponsored academic conference, “Beyond Tradition and Modenity: Gender, Genre, and the Negotiation of Knowledge in Late Qing China,” held at Rice University in March 2005. Co-edited with Grace Fong and Richard J. Smith (Qian as the first editor). Leiden: Brill, June, 2008.
Title:
Different Worlds of Discourse: Transformations of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China
Authors:
editor: Qian, Nanxiu; editor: Fong, Grace S.; editor: Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph)
Year:
2008
Type:
Book
Category:
Edited Books
<div data-schema-version="8"><p><span style="color: rgb(15, 17, 17)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">During the late Qing reform era (1895-1912), women for the first time in Chinese history emerged in public space in collective groups. They assumed new social and educational roles and engaged in intense debates about the place of women in China's present and future. These debates found expression in new media, including periodicals and pictorials, which not only harnessed the power of existing cultural forms but also encouraged experimentation with a variety of new literary genres and styles - works increasingly produced by and for Chinese women. </span></span><em><span style="color: rgb(15, 17, 17)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Different Worlds of Discourse</span></span></em><span style="color: rgb(15, 17, 17)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> explores the reform period from three interrelated and comparatively neglected perspectives: the construction of gender roles, the development of literary genres, and the emergence of new forms of print media.</span></span></p> </div>