The figure of the New Woman, soon to become a major signpost of Chinese modernity, was in the process of being composed at the turn of the twentieth century. The book employs translation as the bridge depicting cross-cultural experience in the construction of the New Woman. A range of Western female icons, including Sophia Perovskaia (the Russian anarchist and would-be assassin of the tsar), the French Revolutionary figure Madame Roland, and Dumass la Dame aux camélias. are focused to trace the circulation and transformation of these popular figures.
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