Title: Changing stories in the Chinese world
First published: 1998
Description: This book is an innovative attempt to convey something of how it has felt since the early nineteenth century to be Chinese. It is based on the assumption that people live their lives in stories, or as if they themselves were in stories - stories that are largely a social inheritance but are also in some measure self-created or at least continually adapted, edited, or extended.

The author describes and interprets some of the most important stories through which the Chinese have lived their lives in the last two hundred years and their understanding of them.
Subjects: Chinese literature, History and criticism, Social aspects, Social aspects of Chinese literature, Social life and customs, Chinese literature, history and criticism, Literature and society, China, social life and customs
Places: China
Time periods: 20th century, Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
LC classification: PL2297 .E48 1997