![]() | Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture Subjects: Chinese literature -- History and criticism; Families in literature; Marital conflict -- China; Marriage in literature; Family life -- China; As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution--an overhaul of family structure, marital practices, and gender relationships. While the nuclear family has become a privileged realm of romance and individualism symbolizing the post-revolutionary "freedoms" of economic and affective autonomy, women's roles in particular have been transformed, with the ideal "iron girl" of socialism replaced by the feminine, family-oriented "good wife and wise mother." Hui Faye Xiao is assistant professor of modern Chinese literature and culture at the University of Kansas. |
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