Gender, Discourse, and the Self in Literature: Issues in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong

Edited by Kwok-kan Tam and Terry Siu-han Yip

March, 2010
Cloth, 250 pages,
ISBN: 978-962-996-399-6
The Chinese University Press
$42.00

As a cultural construct, gender is fictional and imagined, yet gender is also real in its ideological and representational effects on the formation of self and identity. The fiction behind the fictional, which many accept as truth, is what's most intriguing. Critiquing the fictive nature of socially accepted gender values, this volume unravels the strategies writers and filmmakers adopt in their (de)construction of the gendered self in three different Chinese communities: mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Writing from the vantage points of film, literature, and gender studies, contributors adapt western gender discourse to map the construction and representation of self and identity in the social contexts of contemporary China.

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature

About the Author

Kwok-kan Tam is chair professor and dean of arts and social sciences at the Open University of Hong Kong. Terry Siu-han Yip is professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University.

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