Alternative Modernities, or a Classical Woman of Modern China: The Challenging Trajectory of Lü Bicheng's (1883-1943) Life And Song Lyrics

Fong, Grace S.

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“…Her travelogue encouraged women to pursue education and travel in order to broaden their horizons so that they could become good wives and wise mothers. and not as a companion like Shan (Fong, 2004).…”

Section: A Historical Review Of Chinese Female Travellersmentioning

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A narrative review of Asian female travellers: looking into the future through the past

Yang

Khoo‐Lattimore

Arcodia

2016

Current Issues in Tourism

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A narrative review of Asian female travellers: Looking into the future through the past Following the rise of tourism in Asia, a growing female travel market has been observed in the region. Nevertheless, limited research has considered the travel experience of Asian women. In response to the dearth of research on Asian female travellers, this study employs a narrative synthesis approach through a postcolonial feminist lens to review the extant literature on Asian female travellers, with the aim to contribute to a cultural understanding of the historical and contemporary travel practices of Asian women. Based on this review, it is evident that Asian women's travel behaviour is influenced by cultural identities and gender stereotypes. However, existing literature has also demonstrated the agency of Asian women in resisting discriminatory gender practices in tourism, which is represented in the transformation of the identity of Asian female travellers. Accordingly, an agenda for future research is proposed and some implications for the industry are discussed. This study addresses the western-centric and androcentric criticisms in tourism field and provides an alternative reading of women's travel behaviour from an Asian perspective. This study has contributed to the critical tourism scholarship in Asia and has built an important foundation for future research on Asian female travellers, an area that is not well investigated.

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Section: A Historical Review Of Chinese Female Travellersmentioning

confidence: 99%

A narrative review of Asian female travellers: looking into the future through the past

Yang

Khoo‐Lattimore

Arcodia

2016

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…2 Fan Chunwu and Poon Shuk-wah discuss Lü's advocacy of vegetarianism and animal protection. 3 In addition to examining her highly regarded literary achievements, Grace S. Fong, Shengqing Wu, and Yang Jinyu all notice See (Fong 2004(Fong , 2008(Fong , 2015Wu 2004;Yang 2013). As Wu points out, "Lü's enthusiastic study of various beliefs may have helped expand her emancipatory vision and imaginative vitality, liberating them from certain limitations of time and space."…”

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Seeking the Dharma on the World Stage: Lü Bicheng and the Revival of Buddhism in the Early Twentieth Century

Liu

2019

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This article focuses on the Chinese woman writer Lü Bicheng 呂碧城 (1883–1943) and her relationship with the worldwide movement for the revival of Buddhism in the early twentieth century. Lü rose up in the context of the “new woman” ideal and transcended that ideal as she rejected the dualistic thinking that was prevalent in her time. She embraced both reason and religion, as well as both modern and traditional ideas. Her story demonstrates that religion and the creation of the “new woman” were not mutually exclusive in her life. In the 1920s and 1930s, Lü traveled extensively in the United States and Europe and eventually converted to Buddhism after she witnessed its popularity in the West. During this period, she successfully created a social space for herself by utilizing Buddhist sources to engage in intellectual dialogues on paranormal phenomena and animal protection. At the same time, she carved out a place for Buddhism in the discourse on the convergence and divergence of science and religion after the First World War (1914–1918).

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“…Lü Meisun was the second in a family of prominent literary sisters, so her zhiguai practice can be placed in context of all the sisters' biographies and their works in other genres, most famously the poetry and lyrics of the third sister, Lü Bicheng (Fong 2004;Xu 2015). The case of the Lü sisters and some of the material I discuss here have also been used to construct histories of girlhood and the formation of the cainü 才女 (talented girl) during this transitional historical period (Qin 2010;Qin and Bruce 2018).…”

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Family History in an Old Genre: The Strange Tales of Lü Meisun and Guo Zeyun

Huntington

2019

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Recording personal and family history has been a secondary purpose of the zhiguai (tales of the strange) genre from its inception. As there is no proven female author of a surviving collection before the 20th century, these family histories were shaped by male collectors recording tales told by both female and male informants. Yet in the Republican period, when the practice of recording strange incidents from memory or hearsay had become a marginal practice, Lü Meisun 呂美蓀 (1881–1945) published two collections. Lü’s work stands at a fascinating intersection of gender, genre, and cultural change. She presents a family history centered on the female side of her family and her personal spiritual autobiography against the larger backdrop of cultural transformation from the late Qing through the Republican period. In this paper, I consider a male author of zhiguai during the same years, Guo Zeyun 郭則澐 (1882–1946), for comparison. With their differing conceptions of family, both writers strive to convert familial memory and strange experience into meaning relevant for a wider audience in the present moment.

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Alternative Modernities, or a Classical Woman of Modern China: The Challenging Trajectory of Lü Bicheng's (1883-1943) Life And Song Lyrics

Cited by 8 publications

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A narrative review of Asian female travellers: looking into the future through the past

A narrative review of Asian female travellers: looking into the future through the past

Seeking the Dharma on the World Stage: Lü Bicheng and the Revival of Buddhism in the Early Twentieth Century

Family History in an Old Genre: The Strange Tales of Lü Meisun and Guo Zeyun

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