{"product_id":"family-revolution-hui-faye-xiao-9780295993492","title":"Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProblems and contradictions in this new domestic culture have been exposed by China's soaring divorce rate. Reading popular \"divorce narratives\" in fiction, film, and TV drama, Hui Faye Xiao shows that the representation of marital discord has become a cultural battleground for competing ideologies within post-revolutionary China. While these narratives present women's cultivation of wifely and maternal qualities as the cure for family disintegration and social unrest, Xiao shows that they in fact reflect a problematic resurgence of traditional gender roles and a powerful mode of control over supposedly autonomous private life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hui Faye Xiao\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295993499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295993492\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Hui Faye Xiao","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064817070335,"sku":"9780295993492","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0df088c1-cc2d-4e87-bfc8-4cbbe7b7d162.jpg?v=1768671225","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/family-revolution-hui-faye-xiao-9780295993492","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}