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Some of us : Chinese women growing up in the Mao era / edited by Xueping Zhong, Wang Zheng, [and] Bai Di.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2001.Description: xxxiii, 208 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0813529689 (alk. paper)
  • 0813529697 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Chinese women growing up in the Mao era
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.4/0951 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ1767 .S598 2001
Contents:
In a world together yet apart: urban and rural women coming of age in the seventies / Naihua Zhang -- Call me "Qingnian" but not "FunuÌ" a Maoist youth in retrospect / Wang Zheng -- From "lighthouse" to the northeast wilderness: growing up among the ordinary stars / Xiaomei Chen -- My wandering years in the cultural revolution: the interplay of political discourse and personal articulation / Bai Di -- "Times have changed; men an women are the same" / Jiang Jin -- Gender consciousness in my teen years / Lihua Wang -- Between "Lixiang" and childhood dreams: back from the future to the nearly forgotten yesteryears / Xueping Zhong -- The production of senses in and out of the "everlasting auspicious land": Shanghai, 1966-1976 / Zhang Zhen -- Congratulations, it's a girl!: gender and identity in Mao's China / Yanmei Wei.
Summary: Publisher description: Memoirs of women who came of age during the Mao era. What does it mean to have grown up female in the Mao era? How can the remembered details of everyday life help shed light upon those turbulent times? Some of Us is a collection of memoirs by nine Chinese women who grew up during the Mao era and now live in the United States. Each of the chapters is crafted by a writer who reflects back to that time in a more nuanced manner than has been possible for Western observers. The authors attend to gender in a way that male writers have barely noticed; they also reflect on their lives in the United States. The issues explored here are as varied as these women's lives: The burgeoning rebellion of a young girl in northeast China. A girl's struggles to obtain for herself the education her parents inspired her to attain. An exploration of gender and identity as experienced by two sisters. Some of Us offers insight into a place and time when life was much more complex than Westerners have allowed. These eloquent writings shatter our stereotypes of persecution, repression, victims, and victimizers in Maoist China.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

In a world together yet apart: urban and rural women coming of age in the seventies / Naihua Zhang -- Call me "Qingnian" but not "FunuÌ" a Maoist youth in retrospect / Wang Zheng -- From "lighthouse" to the northeast wilderness: growing up among the ordinary stars / Xiaomei Chen -- My wandering years in the cultural revolution: the interplay of political discourse and personal articulation / Bai Di -- "Times have changed; men an women are the same" / Jiang Jin -- Gender consciousness in my teen years / Lihua Wang -- Between "Lixiang" and childhood dreams: back from the future to the nearly forgotten yesteryears / Xueping Zhong -- The production of senses in and out of the "everlasting auspicious land": Shanghai, 1966-1976 / Zhang Zhen -- Congratulations, it's a girl!: gender and identity in Mao's China / Yanmei Wei.

Publisher description: Memoirs of women who came of age during the Mao era. What does it mean to have grown up female in the Mao era? How can the remembered details of everyday life help shed light upon those turbulent times? Some of Us is a collection of memoirs by nine Chinese women who grew up during the Mao era and now live in the United States. Each of the chapters is crafted by a writer who reflects back to that time in a more nuanced manner than has been possible for Western observers. The authors attend to gender in a way that male writers have barely noticed; they also reflect on their lives in the United States. The issues explored here are as varied as these women's lives: The burgeoning rebellion of a young girl in northeast China. A girl's struggles to obtain for herself the education her parents inspired her to attain. An exploration of gender and identity as experienced by two sisters. Some of Us offers insight into a place and time when life was much more complex than Westerners have allowed. These eloquent writings shatter our stereotypes of persecution, repression, victims, and victimizers in Maoist China.

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