{"product_id":"female-rule-in-chinese-and-english-literary-utopias-9780815626237","title":"Female Rule in Chinese and English Literary Utopias","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Qingyun Wu\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQingyun Wu's work is a unique discovery in literary studies in the West. Chinese utopian literature paired with its English counterparts form an original and valuable contribution to world literature. In widely varying historical and cultural texts that span the last five centuries, Wu analyzes the theme of female rule, including a critique of patriarchy and emphasizing a vision for women. To date, Chinese utopias have been insufficiently explored and unavailable to Western scholars. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWu's theories of the politics of female rule, as seen in Chinese and English literature since the end of the sixteenth century, are predicated on three significant changes that have taken place during those periods. These include an outright rejection of rule by women to rule by women in the guise of men, from individual to collective\u003cbr\u003efemale rule, and from an idealized matrilineality to anarchism by the female principle. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWorks examined include Edmund Spenser's \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queen, \u003c\/i\u003e Luo Maodeng's \u003ci\u003eSanbao's Expedition \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eto the Western Ocean, \u003c\/i\u003e Florence Dixie's \u003ci\u003eGloriana\u003c\/i\u003e, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's \u003ci\u003eHerland, \u003c\/i\u003e Ursula K. LeGuin's \u003ci\u003eThe Dispossessed, \u003c\/i\u003e Chen Duansheng's\u003ci\u003e The Destiny of the Next Life, \u003c\/i\u003e Li Ruzhen's \u003ci\u003eThe Flowers in the Mirror, \u003c\/i\u003e and Bai Hua's \u003ci\u003eThe Remote Country of Women.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis critical view of the development of feminist utopias in both the East and West will be of interest to scholars of women's studies, political science, and anthropology as well as to those in literature for both the classical and modern periods.","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47781128863895,"sku":"9780815626237","price":4021.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780815626237.webp?v=1778050819","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/female-rule-in-chinese-and-english-literary-utopias-9780815626237","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}