Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010 [electronic resource] : Histories of the Elusive Self /
Dryburgh, Marjorie.author.
Dauncey, Sarah.author.
This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on both biographical and autobiographical narratives and on perspectives taken from life writing theory to ask how lives were lived and written within and against the rules of the auto/biographical game.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Writing andReading Chinese Lives; 1 Chinese Life Writing: Themes and Variations; 2 Self-representation in the Dramas of Ruan Dacheng (1587-1646); 3 How to Write a Woman's Life Into and Out of History: Wang Zhaoyuan (1763-1851) and Biographical Study in Republican China; 4 The Fugitive Self: Writing Zheng Xiaoxu, 1882-1938; 5 Destabilising the Truths of Revolution: Strategies of Subversion in the Autobiographical Writing of Political Women in China; 6 Zhang Xianliang: Recensions of the Self
7 Whose Life Is It Anyway? Disabled Life Stories in Post-reform China8 A Look at the Margins: Autobiographical Writing in Tibetan in the People's Republic of China; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on both biographical and autobiographical narratives and on perspectives taken from life writing theory to ask how lives were lived and written within and against the rules of the auto/biographical game.
Literature, Modern
Fiction.
Literature
Literature, Modern
Oriental literature.
Culture
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Asian Literature.
Cultural Theory.