Books in the Asia's Transformations/Literature and Society series

Presents the politics and poetics of Chinese transcultural feminism within the bourgeois feminist selfhood. This book looks at Chinese women's literary and artistic achievements and the degree to which Chinese women writers re-invent their lives along with their writings. It is useful for scholars of feminist theory and theatre studies.

Through an examination of the work of a number of prominent 20th-century Japanese writers, the book analyses the meaning of the body in postwar Japanese discourse, the gender constructions of the imagery of the body and the implications for our understanding of individual and national identity.