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Introduces the works of less familiar women writers of the first three decades of the 20th century. The text also discusses work by more prominent authors from the late Qing (1890-1911) through to the Sino-Japanese war. The 22 works of fiction, drama, autobiogrphy, essays and poetry introduce women whose literary careers coincided with an era of tremendous social, political and cultural turbulence in China.

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This is the best anthology to date of feminist Chinese women's creative writing from the period 1905 to 1937. Chinese Women Writers, tr. by Jennifer Anderson and Theresa Munford (CH, Sep'86), is dull by comparison; Born of the Same Roots, ed. by Vivian Ling Hsu (CH, Jun'82), collects many better-constructed stories about the "woman question," but most are by men. Dooling and Torgeson represent exactly how feminist Chinese women thought about themselves and the different ways they expressed it. Stories by Shi Pingmei, Ling Shuhua, Ding Ling, Chen Ying, and Bing Xin belong on any list of the era's best work and are translated accordingly. Then there are the multiple letters within letters within a single story by Lu Yin. She was a talented enough writer; it was just more "realistic" for women to divulge their thoughts in "private" epistolary genres, the editors explain in their always useful and reliable prefatory matter. Given the importance of literature in Chinese culture, this may be the first book any college or public library should buy on the subject of modern Chinese feminism. A work of unusual historical and political balance, recommended for all libraries. J. C. Kinkley; St. John's University (NY)