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...Deborah Shamoon Chijin no ai ( Naomi , 1924) and Nikukai ( A Lump of Flesh , 1923), by Tanizaki Jun'ichirô, were seminal texts in forming the image of the “modern girl” in Japan in the 1920s. In both novels, Hollywood actresses famous for playing vamp roles are central to the construction...

...John M. Knight Woman was a category in flux during China’s revolutionary 1920s. Alongside commercial magazines that celebrated the arrival of the modern girl ( xiandai nüzi ) were political currents that prioritized class and nation as sites for women’s liberation. Scholarship has criticized...

...Suzy Kim Feminism, both as theory and praxis, has long grappled with the dilemma of sex difference—whether to celebrate women’s “difference” from men as offering a more emancipatory potential or to challenge those differences as man-made in the process of delineating modern sexed subjects. While...

... cycle of femininity in urban, late-modern commodity culture. Positioned between “girl (student)” (女生) and “respectable (married) woman” (婦女) or “mama” (媽媽), the qingshounü is defined by her spending power, her relative independence from the burdens of reproductive and domestic labor, and her focus...

.... This study examines three Chinese silent films, WiM Flower (1930), Three Modern Girls (1933), and New Women (1934), all of which focus on images of new women in the city of Shanghai. To be sure, Shanghai must be under- stood in this study...

... are inured to suffering. Deborah Shamoon’s “The Modern Girl and the Vamp: Hollywood Film in Tanizaki Jun’ichirô’s Early Novels” examines Tanizaki novels about the vamp character or the infamous “modern girls” of the 1920s...

... that recognition. Implied in the principal’s injunction is therefore a thinly veiled message: Wang Yaming embodies something other than the sharp image of the mod- ern girl that the school is at pains to produce. What, then, should a modern...

... Foot Fetish to Hand Fetish: Hygiene, Class, and the New Woman” takes up the modern girl and her hands. Repeatedly returning to the female pro- tagonist of a Xiao Hong short story, “Hands,” Yang builds a case that body parts, hands in this case...

... . An Sŏg’yŏng . 1928a . “Kasang sogyŏn (1): Modŏn kkŏlŭi changsin undong” (“Modern Girls’ Accessorizing Movement”) . Chosŏn ilbo , February 5 . An Sŏg’yŏng . 1928b . “Kasang sogyŏn (2): Modŏn ppoiŭi sanbo” (“The Modern Boy’s Stroll”) . Chosŏn ilbo , February 7 . An Sŏg’yŏng...

... with comparative socialist history or you can lay out relatively rare evidence and bore into it, squeeze it for all it is worth. In his evaluation of women and feminisms in Cold War Asia, The Modern Girl Is a Communist: March 8 and China s Proletarian Women s Movement, 1925 27, John Knight focuses his...

... the United Front in China in the 1920s. Looking at the productive rather than the bifurcated relationship between the modern girl and the working woman, he demonstrates how Cold War divisions of the global women s movement were not a foregone conclu- sion and presents us with the possibility of imagining...

.... The first issue is the fluidity of identity during Japan’s modern moment. In my essay on the Japanese modern girl I have talked about how in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s people were questioning gender: in other words, asking what...

.... References Barlow Tani E. 2004 . The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Barlow Tani E. 2008 . “ Buying In: Advertising and the Sexy Modern Girl Icon in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s .” In The Modern Girl around the World: Consumption...

... 748 Figure 10  Sartorial contrast of modern housewife and modern girl. From Okada Saburo¯, “The Young Wife’s Melancholy.” Reproduced with permission of Chu¯okoronsha Frederick ❘❘ Novels to See/Movies to Read...

... also be noted that Suok and Maria do not so much embody the independent spirit of the New Woman as, rather, the frivolous qualities of a consumerist moga, as so-­called “modern girls” came to be known, in Japanese abbreviation, both in Japan...

... family” in The gaze of the boy and girl gures is obvious; sexes are not secluded, and an allure of an aspeci c eroticism suffuses the drawing. The sofa and bowed- leg European coffee table reinforce the Shanghai modern style. One need...

... that I call “school- girl speech advertisement” or “women’s language advertisement,” that maga- zine consumption was part of the process by which readers became modern. The ads deploy a form of speech originally called “schoolgirl speech,” later...

... proletarian and peasant to the modern girl or professional career woman of the women’s lib- eration movement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. An unusually fecund suggestion that struggle over the sex of the barefoot...

..., disavowing one s adolescent fantasies about merging politics and sex, the phantasm of the red modern girl, and fear of a patriarchy reversed and being ingested by rapacious politicized girl cadres but mostly the subliminity of hierarchy. The essay pushes beyond previous ways of grasping the reform...

... and discussed in relation to China s specific conditions, as were more subjective questions of the meanings of love, marriage, and friendship. The Early Stage: Art Education and the New Periodical Press China s most modern metropolis, Shanghai, provides a useful example of modern art education for girls...