Faculty Research Presentation: Imagining Sisterhood in Modern Chinese Texts, 1890–1937
Speaker: Yun Zhu, Assistant Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies (Temple University)
Discussant: Prof. Haili Kong (Swarthmore College)
The highly transitional period from the last two decades of the imperial Qing dynasty through the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 witnessed many changes in the Chinese views on self, family, nation, and the world. The “question of women” emerged in this context and “sisterhood” gained a lot of attention in all kinds of discussions, debates and stories. How was sisterhood imagined and represented differently from earlier times? What new meanings did this kinship term acquire? How did all these affect people’s understanding of the relationship between women and modern China? Come and have a chat with Prof. Yun Zhu about her new book Imagining Sisterhood in Modern Chinese Texts, 1890-1937 (Lexington Books, 2017). Everyone is invited! Pizza lunch!