Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Writing and Reading Chinese Lives

   • Marjorie Dryburgh

   Pages 1-20

3. Chinese Life Writing: Themes and Variations

   • Marjorie Dryburgh, Sarah Dauncey

   Pages 21-56

4. Self-representation in the Dramas of Ruan Dacheng (1587–1646)

   • Alison Hardie

   Pages 57-85

5. 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

   Pages 86-109

6. The Fugitive Self: Writing Zheng Xiaoxu, 1882–1938

   • Marjorie Dryburgh

   Pages 110-132

7. Destabilising the Truths of Revolution: Strategies of Subversion in the Autobiographical Writing of Political Women in China

   • Nicola Spakowski

   Pages 133-158

8. Zhang Xianliang: Recensions of the Self

   • Chloë Starr

   Pages 159-181

9. Whose Life Is It Anyway? Disabled Life Stories in Post-reform China

   • Sarah Dauncey

   Pages 182-205

10. A Look at the Margins: Autobiographical Writing in Tibetan in the People’s Republic of China

    • Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy

    Pages 206-235

11. Back Matter

    Pages 236-265

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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.

• bibliography
• China
• Chinese
• drama
• event
• history
• Narrative
• reform
• revolution
• truth
• women
• writing

• School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, UK

  Marjorie Dryburgh, Sarah Dauncey

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

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