Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010 : Histories of the Elusive Self /
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Imprint: | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ©2013 |
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Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 265 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13452813 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Writing and Reading Chinese Lives; Marjorie Dryburgh
- 1. Chinese Life Writing: Themes and Variations; Marjorie Dryburgh and Sarah Dauncey
- 2. Self-representation in the Dramas of Ruan Dacheng (1587-1646); Alison Hardie
- 3. How to Write a Woman's Life Into and Out of History: Wang Zhaoyuan (1763-1851) and Biographical Study in Republican China; Harriet T. Zurndorfer
- 4. The Fugitive Self: Writing Zheng Xiaoxu, 1882-1938; Marjorie Dryburgh
- 5. Destabilising the Truths of Revolution: Strategies of Subversion in the Autobiographical Writing of Political Women in China; Nicola Spakowski
- 6. Zhang Xianliang: Recensions of the Self; Chloe Starr
- 7. Whose Life is it anyway? Disabled Life Stories in Post-reform China; Sarah Dauncey
- 8. A Look at the Margins: Autobiographical Writing in Tibetan in the People's Republic of China; Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy.