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

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.

List of contents

List of Illustrations Preface Notes on the contributors 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 Bibliography Index

About the author

Alison Hardie, University of Leeds, UK
Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy, Université Laval, Canada
Nicola Spakowski, University of Freiburg, Germany
Harriet Zurndorfer, Leiden Institute of Asian Studies, the Netherlands

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Dauncey, Marjori Dryburgh, Marjorie Dryburgh
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349474660
• ISBN: 978-1-349-47466-0
• No. of pages: 265
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 15 mm x 216 mm
• Illustrations: XII, 265 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Asien, B, Kulturwissenschaften, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Oriental literature, Asian Literature