Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China
- Author: Louise Edwards, University of New South Wales, Sydney
- Date Published: January 2017
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In this compelling new study, Louise Edwards explores the lives of some of China's most famous women warriors and wartime spies through history. Focusing on key figures including Hua Mulan, Zheng Pingru and Liu Hulan, this book examines the ways in which these extraordinary women have been commemorated through a range of cultural mediums including film, theatre, museums and textbooks. Whether perceived as heroes or anti-heroes, Edwards shows that both the popular and official presentation of these women and their accomplishments has evolved in line with China's shifting political values and circumstances over the past one hundred years. Written in a lively and accessible style with illustrations throughout, this book sheds new light on the relationship between gender and militarisation and the ways that women have been exploited to glamorise war both historically in the past and in China today.
Read more- Introduces China's key historical women warriors and wartime spies and surveys how they have been represented over the past century
- Shows how the depiction of these women and their stories has evolved in line with China's shifting political values and circumstances
- Reveals how war is 'marketed' in China through the gender ideals of glamour, sex, motherhood, sacrifice, innocence and vulnerability
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- Date Published: January 2017
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781316595367
- contains: 15 b/w illus.
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. Women warriors and wartime spies of China
2. The archetypal woman warrior, Hua Mulan: militarising filial piety
3. Qiu Jin: transitioning from traditional swordswoman to feminist warrior
4. Xie Bingying opening public spaces to women – fighting patriarchy and fighting militarists
5. Aisin Gioro Xianyu: 'Joan of Arc of the Orient' or 'Mata Hari of the East'?
6. Guerrilla resistance leader, Zhao Yiman: warrior teacher and sacrificing CCP mother
7. Negotiating sexual virtue: the glamorous honey-trap spy, Zheng Pingru
8. Ding Ling and Zhenzhen: female chastity and good communist governance
9. Mobilising and militarising rural China through the girl martyr, Liu Hulan
10. Women warriors and wartime spies as tools for 'total militarisation': The Red Detachment of Women
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