Women warriors and wartime spies of China

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The work Women warriors and wartime spies of China represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Women warriors and wartime spies of China

Statement of responsibility

Louise Edwards (University of New South Wales)

Title variation

Women Warriors & Wartime Spies of China

Creator

• Edwards, Louise P

Subject

• China -- History, Military
• Militarism -- China -- History
• Political culture -- China -- History
• Popular culture -- China -- History
• China -- Biography
• Women soldiers -- China -- Biography
• Women soldiers in mass media
• Women spies -- China -- Biography
• Sex role -- China -- History

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

In this compelling new study, Louise Edwards explores the lives of some of China's most famous women warriors and wartime spies through history. Focusing on key figures including Hua Mulan, Zheng Pingru and Liu Hulan, this book examines the ways in which these extraordinary women have been commemorated through a range of cultural mediums including film, theatre, museums and textbooks. Whether perceived as heroes or anti-heroes, Edwards shows that both the popular and official presentation of these women and their accomplishments has evolved in line with China's shifting political values and circumstances over the past one hundred years. Written in a lively and accessible style with illustrations throughout, this book sheds new light on the relationship between gender and militarisation and the ways that women have been exploited to glamorise war both historically in the past and in China today.--

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks