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Article: Qian Ma. Feminist Utopian Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Chinese and English Fiction: A Cross Cultural Comparison. Burlington.(Book review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- January 1, 2007
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Qian Ma. Feminist Utopian Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Chinese and English Fiction: A Cross Cultural Comparison. Burlington: Ashgate, 2004. vi + 243 pp. $99.95
Qian Ma's book offers a provocative study of feminist utopian discourse in Chinese and English fiction from 1750 to 1830. Ma provides a comparative analysis of six English and Chinese texts. The study includes an Introduction, six chapters, and an Afterword. Three chapters focus on an English text paired with a Chinese text written in the same era. The paired texts are Charlotte Lennox's Female Quixote with Chen Duansheng's Zaisheng yuan (Destiny After Rebirth); Sarah Scott's Description of Millennium ...