Gendering Cross-strait Relations: Romance and Geopolitics in Li Ang's Seven-Generation Predestined Relationship and Ping Lu's East and Beyond

• Published in: Archiv orientální Vol. 81; no. 3; pp. 515 - 538
• Main Author: LIN, Pei-Yin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Praha Oriental Institute 01.01.2013; Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Subjects: Asian literature; China; Chinese history; Females; Feminism; Foreign relations; Geopolitics; History; Identity; International relations; Language and culture; Language culture relationship; Li, Ang; Li, Ang (1952- ); Linguistics; Literature; Narratives; Novels; Peoples Republic of China; Ping, Lu; Politics; Romance languages; Sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics; Source studies; Taiwan; Text analysis; Writers; China; Taiwan; Li Ang; romance; Cross-strait Relations; Feminism; Literature; Narrative; geopolitics; Gendering; Ping Lu; Woman

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