ABOUT CHINESE WOMEN China History Politics Literature Family Culture Studies H/B magasin

About Chinese Women, by Julia Kristeva

Published by Marion Boyars in 1977, 203 pages. Hardback with Dust Jacket (S8295F)

From the front inside fly leaf: Originally published in France, Julia Kristevas book About Chinese Women offers original glimpses through certain folds of the veil of mystery which has hung between the Orient and the Occident for well over two thousand years.

By combining a study of Chinese history, literature, psychology, religion and poli­tics - then adding her own sensitive and sensible impressions of the women of China - Ms Kristeva provides a startling view of a country in which - largely unnoticed by the West - the role of women has been transformed with incredi­ble rapidity. The crippled, bound feet with which we have long been familiar have been replaced by a powerful corps of feminine leaders, now largely responsible for supporting the entire social order. In fact, during the revealing interviews included here, Ms Kristeva found Chinese women to be remarkably similar to the men - except that most of the societys stability rests upon them. The position into which these women have been hurled, after centuries of stagnation, helps to explain the new China and simultaneously offers various theories concerning the future of that unknown country.

Julia Kristeva not only describes the position of women and the family in ancient and modern China, but introduces her subject with an analysis of the universal and archetypal differences between the male and the female. She ultimately relates the position of Chinese women to that of their western sisters. The book encompasses the historical, the anthro­pological and the philosophical aspects of this painfully fashionable subject that needs the intelligence here so competently supplied.

The condition of the book is generally very good. The dust jacket has several minor scuffs and blemishes, and light wear along the edges and corners, but the spine is intact and all pages are intact, unblemished and tightly bound. The front inside fly leaf has been price clipped.

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