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Article: New Dreams Of China: The China Novels Of Anne Duffield
Title | New Dreams Of China: The China Novels Of Anne Duffield |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Anne Duffield, representations of China, entertainment, alternatives to ‘Yellow Peril’ |
Issue Date | 2015 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/09574042.html |
Citation | Women: A Cultural Review, 2015, v. 26 n. 1-2, p. 112-128 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This article examines the work of a forgotten novelist, Anne Duffield, whose early novels set in China merit re-examination. Utilizing but also subverting the romance novel formula and alert to the utopian appeal of entertainment, Duffield’s The Lacquer Couch and Lantern-Light create a dream of China that invites intercultural connection, friendship and understanding. As China in the 1920s was rocked by anti-foreigner violence, the vision of these two novels was an appealing and hopeful alternative to the resurgent fears of malevolent fiends reminiscent of an earlier ‘Yellow Peril’ discourse. In addition, Duffield’s China, though romanticized, is also a modern and cosmopolitan one—an important counter to a tendency to imagine China as antiquated and entombed in the past. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/210669 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.0 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Gan, WCH | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-23T05:45:44Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-06-23T05:45:44Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Women: A Cultural Review, 2015, v. 26 n. 1-2, p. 112-128 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0957-4042 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/210669 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This article examines the work of a forgotten novelist, Anne Duffield, whose early novels set in China merit re-examination. Utilizing but also subverting the romance novel formula and alert to the utopian appeal of entertainment, Duffield’s The Lacquer Couch and Lantern-Light create a dream of China that invites intercultural connection, friendship and understanding. As China in the 1920s was rocked by anti-foreigner violence, the vision of these two novels was an appealing and hopeful alternative to the resurgent fears of malevolent fiends reminiscent of an earlier ‘Yellow Peril’ discourse. In addition, Duffield’s China, though romanticized, is also a modern and cosmopolitan one—an important counter to a tendency to imagine China as antiquated and entombed in the past. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Taylor and Francis. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/09574042.html | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Women: A Cultural Review | - |
dc.subject | Anne Duffield, representations of China, entertainment, alternatives to ‘Yellow Peril’ | - |
dc.title | New Dreams Of China: The China Novels Of Anne Duffield | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Gan, WCH: wchgan@hkucc.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Gan, WCH=rp01165 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/09574042.2015.1035052 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84937551066 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 244151 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 26 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1470-1367 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000388607500007 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0957-4042 | - |