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Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Release : 2023-01-03
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Book Synopsis Chinese Chinese Autobiographical Writing by : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Download or read book Chinese Chinese Autobiographical Writing written by Patricia Buckley Ebrey. This book was released on 2023-01-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janet Ng
Release : 2010-02-09
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Experience of Modernity by : Janet Ng
Download or read book The Experience of Modernity written by Janet Ng. This book was released on 2010-02-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Lingzhen Wang
Release : 2004
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Personal Matters by : Lingzhen Wang
Download or read book Personal Matters written by Lingzhen Wang. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies identity formation and transformation in twentieth-century China by focusing on women's autobiographical writing.
Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Release : 2019
Genre : Burial
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Book Rating : 418/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chinese Funerary Biographies by : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Download or read book Chinese Funerary Biographies written by Patricia Buckley Ebrey. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--
Author : Jing M. Wang
Release : 2003-05-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 828/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Jumping Through Hoops by : Jing M. Wang
Download or read book Jumping Through Hoops written by Jing M. Wang. This book was released on 2003-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
