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

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010 :/ edited by Marjorie Dryburgh and Sarah Dauncey, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, UK.
Reminder of title:	Histories of the Elusive Self /
other author:	Dauncey, Sarah,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 265 pages) :illustrations :
Subject:	Autobiography - Chinese authors. -
Subject:	China -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137368577
ISBN:	1137368578 (electronic bk.)

Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010 : = Histories of the Elusive Self /
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. - 1 online resource (xii, 265 pages) :illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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. "--

ISBN: 1137368578 (electronic bk.)

Source: 703520Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

1005772
Autobiography
--Chinese authors.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

714969
China
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: CT34.C6 / W75 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 808/.06692

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