The Happy Hsiungs [electronic resource] : Performing China and the Struggle for Modernity /
Yeh, Diana,author.
Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press,
[2014]
The Happy Hsiungs recovers the histories of two married Chinese writers who lived and worked in Britain from the 1930s onwards. Shih-I Hsiung shot to worldwide fame with his play "Lady Precious Stream," while Dymia Hsiung was the first Chinese woman to publish a fictional autobiography in English of her life in Britain. 
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on transliteration -- Prelude -- Chapter 1. Adrift in New China: learning, love and labour -- Chapter 2. 'Try something different. Something really Chinese' -- Chapter 3. 'The greatest success': the rise to global fame -- Chapter 4. China fashion and the politics of success -- Chapter 5. The kaleidoscope of China: authenticity, orientalism and discontents -- Chapter 6. The end to old Cathay? -- Chapter 7. 'Looking like an English household': performing class, family and home -- Chapter 8. Goddess, housewife, writer -- Chapter 9. Into the shadows -- Chapter 10. Global and contemporary revivals -- Afterword -- Glossary of names -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
The Happy Hsiungs recovers the histories of two married Chinese writers who lived and worked in Britain from the 1930s onwards. Shih-I Hsiung shot to worldwide fame with his play "Lady Precious Stream," while Dymia Hsiung was the first Chinese woman to publish a fictional autobiography in English of her life in Britain. 
Description based on print version record.
Hsiung, S. I. (Shih I), 1902-1991.
Hsiung, Dymia.
Social integration
Chinese
Authors, Chinese