Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010 : Histories of the Elusive Self /

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Imprint:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ©2013
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 265 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Autobiography -- Chinese authors. Biography -- Chinese authors. Biography as a literary form. Autobiography -- Chinese authors. Biography. Biography as a literary form. China -- Biography -- History and criticism. China. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13452813

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Other authors / contributors:	Dryburgh, Marjorie, editor, author. Dauncey, Sarah, 1970- editor, author.
ISBN:	9781137368577 1137368578 9781137368560 113736856X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"This innovative collection explores life stories produced in China between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. These essays draw on biographical and autobiographical narratives of men and women, paragons and pariahs, taken from official histories, personal diaries, plays, fiction and blogs, and use perspectives taken from life writing theory to illuminate that work. Whereas many earlier studies have emphasised the social rules of life writing in China, and suggested that lives and selves were often obscured by the weight of convention, the work in this volume shows that the rules were often actively evaded or creatively exploited by biographers and autobiographers, and suggest that a critical understanding of those evasions and exploitations can better reveal lives that were lived and written both within and against the rules of the auto/biographical game."--
Other form:	Print version: Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010 9781137368560

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.

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