Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era

Marc Notes: Bibl. ref. & index; All hail from urban backgrounds & all have obtained their Ph. D.s in the US;thus their memories are informed by intellectual training & insights that only distance can allow; Cloth @ $58.00. Publisher Marketing: "This collection makes a fascinating read. Each of the nine memoirs is crafted with skill and honesty." --Dorothy Ko, professor of history, Barnard College What does it mean to have grown up female in the Mao era? How can the remembered details of everyday life help shed light upon those turbulent times? Some of Us is a collection of memoirs by nine Chinese women who grew up during the Mao era and now live in the United States. Each of the chapters is crafted by a writer who reflects back to that time in a more nuanced manner than has been possible for Western observers. The authors attend to gender in a way that male writers have barely noticed; they also reflect on their lives in the United States. The issues explored here are as varied as these women's lives. The burgeoning rebellion of a young girl in northeast China. A girl's struggles to obtain for herself the education her parents inspired her to attain. An exploration of gender and identity as experienced by two sisters. Some of Us offers insights into a place and time when life was much more complex than Westerners have allowed. These eloquent writings shatter our stereotypes of persecution, repression, victims, and victimizers in Maoist China. Xueping Zhong is an associate professor of literature at Tufts University. She in the author of Masculinity Besieged?: Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Late Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature. Wang Zheng is an associate professor of women's studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Women in the Chinese Englightenment: Oral and Textual Histories. Bao Di is assistant professor of Chinese at Drew University. Review Citations:

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Contributor Bio:  Zhong, Xueping Xueping Zhong is Assistant Professor in the Department of German/Russian/Asian Languages at Tufts University. Contributor Bio:  Wang, Zheng Wang Zheng is an Affiliated Scholar at the Institute for ResWang Zheng is an Affiliated Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. Wang's worearch on Women and Gender at Stanford University. Wang's work in English includes the coediting of "From the Soil: The Fk in English includes the coediting of "From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society" by Fei Xiaotong (California, oundations of Chinese Society" by Fei Xiaotong (California, 1992). 1992). Contributor Bio:  Zheng, Wang Wang Zheng is an Affiliated Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. Wang's work in English includes the coediting of "From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society" by Fei Xiaotong (California, 1992). Contributor Bio:  Chen, Xiaomei Chen is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literatures at Ohio State University.