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- catalog abstract ""The late Qing era witnessed the translating, printing, and reading of a vast amount of Western literature, amounting to what has been called a "translation fever." The author focuses on the fictional and translational representation of 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 Dumas's "la Dame aux camelias." In tracing the circulation and transformation of these popular figures through travel books, biographies, newspaper articles, oral performance scripts, and novels, this book narrates the complex relationship between imagining a foreign other and re-imagining the self. In investigating the very processes of translation, it provides a sustained analysis of the cultural and historical forces that produced the New Woman in China."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Composing the new woman in China, 1899-1918".
- catalog contributor b11622269.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""The late Qing era witnessed the translating, printing, and reading of a vast amount of Western literature, amounting to what has been called a "translation fever." The author focuses on the fictional and translational representation of 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 Dumas's "la Dame aux camelias." In tracing the circulation and transformation of these popular figures through travel books, biographies, newspaper articles, oral performance scripts, and novels, this book narrates the complex relationship between imagining a foreign other and re-imagining the self.".
- catalog description "In investigating the very processes of translation, it provides a sustained analysis of the cultural and historical forces that produced the New Woman in China."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-252) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: The Emerging New Woman and Her Significant Others 1 -- 1 Flower in a Sea of Retribution: A Tale of Border-Crossing 21 -- 2 Transplanting the Lady of the Camellias 67 -- 3 From Sophia to Su Feiya 106 -- 4 Madame Roland and Her Chinese Sister 153 -- Epilogue: Women Repositioned 197.".
- catalog extent "ix, 265 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0804737746 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "China.".
- catalog subject "305.42/095109041 21".
- catalog subject "HQ1767 .H825 2000".
- catalog subject "Women China.".
- catalog subject "Women Cross-cultural studies.".
- catalog subject "Women Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Women in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The Emerging New Woman and Her Significant Others 1 -- 1 Flower in a Sea of Retribution: A Tale of Border-Crossing 21 -- 2 Transplanting the Lady of the Camellias 67 -- 3 From Sophia to Su Feiya 106 -- 4 Madame Roland and Her Chinese Sister 153 -- Epilogue: Women Repositioned 197.".
- catalog title "Composing the new woman in China, 1899-1918".
- catalog title "Tales of translation : composing the new woman in China, 1899-1918 / Hu Ying.".
- catalog type "Cross-cultural studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".