{"product_id":"9780295804989","title":"Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution an overhaul of family structure, marital practices, and gender relationships. While the nuclear family has become a privileged realm of romance and individualism symbolizing the post-revolutionary  freedoms  of economic and affective autonomy, women s roles in particular have been transformed, with the ideal  iron girl  of socialism replaced by the feminine, family-oriented  good wife and wise mother. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProblems and contradictions in this new domestic culture have been exposed by China's soaring divorce rate. Reading popular  divorce narratives  in fiction, film, and TV drama, Hui Faye Xiao shows that the representation of marital discord has become a cultural battleground for competing ideologies within post-revolutionary China. While these narratives present women s cultivation of wifely and maternal qualities as the cure for family disintegration and social unrest, Xiao shows that they in fact reflect a problematic resurgence of traditional gender roles and a powerful mode of control over supposedly autonomous private life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124993540336,"sku":"9780295804989","price":26.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780295804989_p0.jpg?v=1763683581","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780295804989","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}