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Chinese Autobiographical Writing
Author | : Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Cong Ellen Zhang,Ping Yao,Professor of History Ping Yao |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-01-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0295751231 |
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Personal accounts help us understand notions of self, interpersonal relations, and historical events. Chinese Autobiographical Writing contains full translations of works by fifty individuals that illuminate the history and conventions of writing about oneself in the Chinese tradition. From poetry, letters, and diaries to statements in legal proceedings, these engaging and readable works draw us into the past and provide vivid details of life as it was lived from the pre-imperial period to the nineteenth century. Some focus on a person?s entire life, others on a specific moment. Some have an element of humor, others are entirely serious. Taken together, these selections offer an intimate view of how Chinese men and women, both famous and obscure, reflected on their experiences as well as their personal struggles and innermost thoughts. With an introduction and list of additional readings for each selection, this volume is ideal for undergraduate courses on Chinese history, literature, religion, and women and family. Read individually, each piece illuminates a person, place, and moment. Read in chronological order, they highlight cultural change over time by showing how people explored new ways to represent themselves in writing.
Personal Matters
Author | : Lingzhen Wang |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080475005X |
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This book studies identity formation and transformation in twentieth-century China by focusing on women's autobiographical writing.
The Experience of Modernity
Author | : Janet Ng |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2010-02-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780472024803 |
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Autobiography of the first half of the twentieth century was used variously by different groups of writers to interrogate, negotiate, and even to program the social and political progress of China. However, despite the popularity and success of this genre, it has also been the most forgotten in literary and historical discussions. Personal stories and individual expressions seem to have had no place in 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s China, smothered instead by the grander rhetoric of nationalism. For this reason, autobiography's popularity during the era is an odd phenomenon and also an important genre for study. The May Fourth Era (1917-40) began as a movement to make the classical literary language accessible to the common people and became a broader political movement against imperialism. The writing of autobiography was influenced by the idea of literature's social and political mission, yet at the same time autobiography was a uniquely potent venue for individual expression. Janet Ng examines this notion in The Experience of Modernity within the framework of autobiographical writings by Chen Hengzhe, Lu Xun, Hu Shi, Xie Bingying, Xiao Hong, Eileen Chang, Yu Dafu, and Shen Congwen. Janet Ng is Assistant Professor of Asian Literature, the College of Staten.
When I was Born
Author | : Jing M. Wang |
Publsiher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0299225100 |
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In the period between the 1920s and 1940s, a genre emerged in Chinese literature that would reveal crucial contradictions in Chinese culture that still exist today. At a time of intense political conflict, Chinese women began to write autobiography, a genre that focused on personal identity and self-exploration rather than the national, collective identity that the country was championing. When "I" Was Born: Women's Autobiography in Modern China reclaims the voices of these particular writers, voices that have been misinterpreted and overlooked for decades. Tracing women writers as they move from autobiographical fiction, often self-revelatory and personal, to explicit autobiographies that focused on women's roles in public life, Jing M. Wang reveals the factors that propelled this literary movement, the roles that liberal translators and their renditions of Western life stories played, and the way in which these women writers redefined writing and gender in the stories they told. But Wang reveals another story as well: the evolving history and identity of women in modern Chinese society. When "I" Was Born adds to a growing body of important work in Chinese history and culture, women's studies, and autobiography in a global context. Writers discussed include Xie Bingying, Zhang Ailing, Yu Yinzi, Fei Pu, Lu Meiyen, Feng Heyi, Ye Qian, Bai Wei, Shi Wen, Fan Xiulin, Su Xuelin, and Lu Yin.
Modern and Contemporary Chinese Women s Autobiographical Writing
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Author | : Lingzhen Wang |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Autobiography |
ISBN | : OCLC:41912181 |
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Writing Lives in China 1600 2010
Author | : Marjorie Dryburgh,Sarah Dauncey |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137368577 |
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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.
Chinese Funerary Biographies
Author | : Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Ping Yao (Professor of history),Cong Ellen Zhang |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Burial |
ISBN | : 0295746416 |
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"Tens of thousands of epitaphs or funerary biographies survive from imperial China. Written to be engraved on stone and placed in a grave, they typically focus on the deceased's biographical information and exemplary words and deeds, expressing survivors' longing for the dead. Epitaphs provide glimpses of the lives of people who are not well-documented in such sources as the dynastic histories and local gazetteers: women, men who did not leave a mark politically, and children. This anthology makes available a set of funerary biographies covering nearly two thousand years of history, from the Han dynasty through the nineteenth century, selected for their potential as teaching material for courses on Chinese history, literature, and women's studies as well as world history. Funerary biographies, due to their inclusion of telling details about personal conduct, family life, local conditions, and social, cultural, and religious practices, can illustrate ways of thinking and the realities of daily life. Since most funerary biographies can be read and analyzed on multiple levels, they have the potential to stimulate discussion of topics such as the emotional tenor of family life, rituals associated with death, whether the values seen in these biographies should be called Confucian, ways to analyze women's lives from sources written by men, and how to use sources that can be assumed to be biased. These biographies will be especially effective when combined with more readily available primary sources such as official documents, religious and intellectual discourses, and anecdotal stories, promising to generate interesting discussion about literary genre, the ways historians use sources, and how writers shape their accounts"--
Jumping Through Hoops
Author | : Jing M. Wang |
Publsiher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2003-05-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789622095823 |
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Jumping Through Hoops is a collection of nine intense and dramatic stories that sheds new light on the experiences of Chinese women during the Second World War. Originally published in Chinese in 1945, as part of Xie Bingying's classic anthology Nu zuojia zizhuan xuanji (Selected autobiographical writings by women writers), the extraordinary narratives reveal the writers' personal struggles during the years of turmoil between the Republican and Communist eras. Whether the contributors are internationally acclaimed or just rediscovered, most of these narratives are seldom found in other collections, either in Chinese or in translation.