City Women: Contemporary Taiwan Women Writers
City Women: Contemporary Taiwan Women Writers
Edited by Eva Hung
2001
160 pages
ISBN 962-7255-23-8
The emergence of women writers in China's public sphere almost a century ago was closely linked to the development of major cities. Ever since then, the city has been the chosen milieu of the majority of Chinese writing women. In this collection, five of the most brilliant women writers from Taiwan confront issues facing women born and bred in big cities. They offer some of the deepest explorations into human nature, gender manipulation and the sense of isolation suffered by inhabitants of a fast-changing metropolis.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
The City and Writing Women By Eva Hung — 7
Selling House and Home By Huang Ying Translated by Cathy Poon — 15
Fin de Siècle Splendour By Zhu Tianwen Translated by Diana Yue — 41
Nineteen Days of the New Party By Zhu Tianxin Translated by Martha Cheung — 67
The Colours of Love By Xiao Sa Translated by Eva Hung — 111
Fever By Yuan Qiongqiong Translated by Felice Marcus — 139
Translators — 159
Sources — 160
Review(s)
Review(s)
'Taipei is arguably the most distinctive and under-appreciated city in Asia, but these five stories by Taiwanese women authors render it with an immediacy that is positively tactile.'
—South China Morning Post
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EDITOR(s)
EVA HUNG 孔慧怡 studied translation at the University of Hong Kong and received her Ph.D. from the University of London. She is Director of the Research Centre for Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Editor of Renditions. Her recent academic publications include Translation ‧ Literature ‧ Culture and Translation in Asia: Past and Present (co-ed. Yang Cheng-shu). The Chinese women writers she has translated include Eileen Chang, Xi Xi, Shu Ting and Wang Anyi. Besides her academic work, she writes fiction and essays in Chinese and poetry in English.