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Writing lives in China, 1600-2010 : histories of the elusive self

Title
  1. Writing lives in China, 1600-2010 : histories of the elusive self / edited by Marjorie Dryburgh and Sarah Dauncey, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, UK.
Published by
  1. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Additional authors
  1. Dryburgh, Marjorie
  2. Dauncey, Sarah, 1970-
Description
  1. xii, 265 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
  1. "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."--
Subject
  1. China
  2. Biography
  3. Biography > Chinese authors
  4. Autobiographische Literatur
  5. Criticism, interpretation, etc
  6. China > Biography > History and criticism
  7. Autobiography > Chinese authors
  8. Biographische Literatur
  9. Biography as a literary form
  10. Chinesisch
  11. Literature
  12. LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > Chinese
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations Preface Notes on the contributorsIntroduction: Writing and Reading Chinese Lives; Marjorie Dryburgh 1. Chinese Life Writing: Themes and Variations; Marjorie Dryburgh and Sarah Dauncey2. Self-representation in the Dramas of Ruan Dacheng (1587-1646); Alison Hardie3. How to Write a Woman's Life Into and Out of History: Wang Zhaoyuan (1763-1851) and Biographical Study in Republican China; Harriet T. Zurndorfer4. The Fugitive Self: Writing Zheng Xiaoxu, 1882-1938; Marjorie Dryburgh5. Destabilising the Truths of Revolution: Strategies of Subversion in the Autobiographical Writing of Political Women in China; Nicola Spakowski6. Zhang Xianliang: Recensions of the Self; Chloe Starr7. Whose Life is it anyway? Disabled Life Stories in Post-reform China; Sarah Dauncey8. A Look at the Margins: Autobiographical Writing in Tibetan in the People's Republic of China; Isabelle Henrion-DourcyBibliography Index.
Call number
  1. JFD 15-3225
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-259) and index.
Title
  1. Writing lives in China, 1600-2010 : histories of the elusive self / edited by Marjorie Dryburgh and Sarah Dauncey, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, UK.
Publisher
  1. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-259) and index.
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  1. Cover image
Added author
  1. Dryburgh, Marjorie, editor.
  2. Dauncey, Sarah, 1970- editor.
LCCN
  1. 2013043894
ISBN
  1. 9781137368560 (hardback)
  2. 113736856X (hardback)
Research call number
  1. JFD 15-3225
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