Yenna Wu is distinguished teaching professor and director of the Asian Languages and Civilizations Program at the University of California, Riverside.

The collection of essays edited by Yenna Wu is a valuable contribution to the study of one of Taiwan’s most significant woman writers, Li Ang. Just as multi-faceted as Li’s corpus itself, the essays in this book critically examine her works from the perspectives of history, sociology, gender politics, and postcolonial studies. . . .The essays gathered in Li Ang’s Visionary Challenges to Gender, Sex, and Politics present compelling arguments about the way Li’s works probe into issues of history, politics, gender, class, sexuality, and nationhood in Taiwan.

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. In the Vanguard: Li Ang’s Discourse on Gender and PoliticsYenna Wu2. Li Ang as the Socio-Feminist Conscience of Taiwanese: Local Identity, Women’s Liberation, Political Activism, and Cross-Strait Outreach as an Author’s Venues and CausesMurray A. Rubinstein3. Li Ang on Extramarital AffairsChia-lin Pao Tao4. Between Insight and “Inattentional Blindness”: Feminist Controversy over Li Ang’s ShafuYenna Wu5. Figurations of “Biopower” and Relationship Dynamics in Li Ang’s ShafuYenna Wu6. Make It Till You Fake It: The Four-claw Dragons in The Labyrinthine GardenAubrey Tang 7. Women, Politics, and National Identity: Revisiting Li Ang’s All Sticks are Welcome in the Censer of BeigangFang-yu Li8. Romancing the Strait: Love and Death in Li Ang’s Seven Prelives of Affective AffinityPing-hui Liao9. (Dis)embodied Subversion: The Mountain-pass Ghost in Li Ang's Visible Ghosts (Kandejian de gui)Yenna WuIndexAbout the Contributors

Yenna Wu is distinguished teaching professor and director of the Asian Languages and Civilizations Program at the University of California, Riverside.

The collection of essays edited by Yenna Wu is a valuable contribution to the study of one of Taiwan’s most significant woman writers, Li Ang. Just as multi-faceted as Li’s corpus itself, the essays in this book critically examine her works from the perspectives of history, sociology, gender politics, and postcolonial studies. . . .The essays gathered in Li Ang’s Visionary Challenges to Gender, Sex, and Politics present compelling arguments about the way Li’s works probe into issues of history, politics, gender, class, sexuality, and nationhood in Taiwan.

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. In the Vanguard: Li Ang’s Discourse on Gender and PoliticsYenna Wu2. Li Ang as the Socio-Feminist Conscience of Taiwanese: Local Identity, Women’s Liberation, Political Activism, and Cross-Strait Outreach as an Author’s Venues and CausesMurray A. Rubinstein3. Li Ang on Extramarital AffairsChia-lin Pao Tao4. Between Insight and “Inattentional Blindness”: Feminist Controversy over Li Ang’s ShafuYenna Wu5. Figurations of “Biopower” and Relationship Dynamics in Li Ang’s ShafuYenna Wu6. Make It Till You Fake It: The Four-claw Dragons in The Labyrinthine GardenAubrey Tang 7. Women, Politics, and National Identity: Revisiting Li Ang’s All Sticks are Welcome in the Censer of BeigangFang-yu Li8. Romancing the Strait: Love and Death in Li Ang’s Seven Prelives of Affective AffinityPing-hui Liao9. (Dis)embodied Subversion: The Mountain-pass Ghost in Li Ang's Visible Ghosts (Kandejian de gui)Yenna WuIndexAbout the Contributors

Yenna Wu is distinguished teaching professor and director of the Asian Languages and Civilizations Program at the University of California, Riverside.

The collection of essays edited by Yenna Wu is a valuable contribution to the study of one of Taiwan’s most significant woman writers, Li Ang. Just as multi-faceted as Li’s corpus itself, the essays in this book critically examine her works from the perspectives of history, sociology, gender politics, and postcolonial studies. . . .The essays gathered in Li Ang’s Visionary Challenges to Gender, Sex, and Politics present compelling arguments about the way Li’s works probe into issues of history, politics, gender, class, sexuality, and nationhood in Taiwan.

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. In the Vanguard: Li Ang’s Discourse on Gender and PoliticsYenna Wu2. Li Ang as the Socio-Feminist Conscience of Taiwanese: Local Identity, Women’s Liberation, Political Activism, and Cross-Strait Outreach as an Author’s Venues and CausesMurray A. Rubinstein3. Li Ang on Extramarital AffairsChia-lin Pao Tao4. Between Insight and “Inattentional Blindness”: Feminist Controversy over Li Ang’s ShafuYenna Wu5. Figurations of “Biopower” and Relationship Dynamics in Li Ang’s ShafuYenna Wu6. Make It Till You Fake It: The Four-claw Dragons in The Labyrinthine GardenAubrey Tang 7. Women, Politics, and National Identity: Revisiting Li Ang’s All Sticks are Welcome in the Censer of BeigangFang-yu Li8. Romancing the Strait: Love and Death in Li Ang’s Seven Prelives of Affective AffinityPing-hui Liao9. (Dis)embodied Subversion: The Mountain-pass Ghost in Li Ang's Visible Ghosts (Kandejian de gui)Yenna WuIndexAbout the Contributors