Event Title
Shanghai Women: Examining Eileen Chang's Representations of Gender Through Fiction
Location
Diamond 242
Start Date
1-5-2014 9:00 AM
End Date
1-5-2014 10:50 AM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
Eileen Chang was a 20th century author whose fiction focused on gender dynamics in World War II-era Shanghai. For my project, I have chosen her collection of novellas and short stories, Love in a Fallen City, published in 2006 by the New York Review of Books (though most of the stories were published at least a decade or two earlier). The collection, which was originally published in Chinese and only recently was translated into English, features six lengthy stories that explore female life in Shanghai during the 1940s, and deal with the physical presence of war and a changing political climate, as well as their effects on love and relationships between men and women. In each of the stories, dramatic parallels are drawn between the conflict within the state and conflicts within marriages or affairs. The stories also profoundly and successfully explore the inner turmoil of women whose roles and lives are dictated by society.
Faculty Sponsor
Elizabeth LaCouture
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. History Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Social Sciences
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
563
Shanghai Women: Examining Eileen Chang's Representations of Gender Through Fiction
Diamond 242
Eileen Chang was a 20th century author whose fiction focused on gender dynamics in World War II-era Shanghai. For my project, I have chosen her collection of novellas and short stories, Love in a Fallen City, published in 2006 by the New York Review of Books (though most of the stories were published at least a decade or two earlier). The collection, which was originally published in Chinese and only recently was translated into English, features six lengthy stories that explore female life in Shanghai during the 1940s, and deal with the physical presence of war and a changing political climate, as well as their effects on love and relationships between men and women. In each of the stories, dramatic parallels are drawn between the conflict within the state and conflicts within marriages or affairs. The stories also profoundly and successfully explore the inner turmoil of women whose roles and lives are dictated by society.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2014/program/195