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

by Marjorie Dryburgh, Sarah Dauncey

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9781137368560
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/31/2013
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	265
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

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

Table 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