Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity

<p><b>Examines literary historical and cultural portrayals of Chinese women across centuries and continents.</b></p><p><i>Crossing Borders and Confounding Identity</i> advances our understanding of the diversity of Chinese women's experiences and achievements from the Han Dynasty to the present. With a particular emphasis on literature and the arts the chapters offer insights into the work of current Chinese women artists as well as literary historical and cultural portrayals of women and women's issues. Taken together they provide new perspectives on Chinese women their lived experiences and fictional representations across a broad spectrum of literature theater film and the visual arts. Accessible to nonspecialists and general readers this book will also be a valuable resource for faculty who teach Asian studies courses in history and in the humanities as well as for students in interdisciplinary Asian studies courses.</p>