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- Title
Home is Nowhere, Home is Everywhere: A Female Intellectual’s Life in Sino-Japanese Wartime.
- Authors
Chien-ming Yu
- Abstract
The Second Sino-Japanese War brought great calamity and hardships, and became a common memory for many Chinese people. In order to present a more comprehensive view of women’s wartime experiences, this article examines a lesser-known memoir of a female intellectual, Fan Xiaofan's Fengyu liuwang lu: yi wei zhishi nüxing de kangzhan jingli (A Life in Exile: A Female Intellectual’s Experiences during the War of Resistance against Japan). This memoir consists of a compilation of diary entries. Although it may suffer from the inevitable overlapping of time and space, it provides a more realistic view of the mood and feeling of the author when she was writing the dairy. This special feature distinguishes this text from many other textualizations of memories. This article traces how Fan’s memoir shows the war influenced the life of the newlywed Fan Xiaofan. As a female intellectual, how did she face various changes during the war? How did her experiences differ from men^? Or, did the war experience transcend gender differences? For the purpose of comparison, this article not only briefly compares Fan's experiences with other female intellectuals' wartime memories, it also brings in some wartime memories of male intellectuals.
- Subjects
CHINA; CHINESE personal narratives of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945; FAN Xiaofan; WOMEN &; war; FENGYU liuwang lu: Yi wei zhishi nuxing de kangzhan jingli (Book); CHINESE history, 1937-1945; CHINESE Republic, 1912-1949; INTELLECTUAL life
- Publication
Research on Women in Modern Chinese History / Jindai Zhongguo Funu Shi Yanjiu, 2014, Vol 23, p1
- ISSN
1029-4759
- Publication type
Article