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Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295751221
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Chinese Chinese Autobiographical Writing written by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295746418
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Chinese Funerary Biographies written by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. 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 : Janet Ng
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472024809
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Experience of Modernity written by Janet Ng and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 209 pages. 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 : Jing M. Wang
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622095828
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Jumping Through Hoops written by Jing M. Wang and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 253 pages. 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.
Author : Lingzhen Wang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804750059
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Personal Matters written by Lingzhen Wang and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. 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 : Pei-yi Wu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Confucian's Progress written by Pei-yi Wu and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the widely held belief that autobiography is a unique product of the West, Pei-yi Wu demonstrates that writing about the self did thrive in one non-Western civilization. The pages of this first full-length treatment of Chinese autobiography teem with fascinating individuals each of whom has a story to tell--champions of lost causes explaining their impending martyrdom to posterity, earnest Buddhists and Confucians reporting on their spiritual quests, irrepressible and inventive egotists indulging in self-celebration, and distressed moralists confessing their sins. Affording the reader a view of some never before examined aspects of the Chinese psyche, The Confucian's Progress is also an accessible introduction to Chinese history and literature. "A highly intelligent--and thoroughly intelligible--book-length essay on autobiographical writings in China.... With its ample and readable translations of a dazzling array of scarce Chinese texts alone, this book will reward readers. Moreover, The Confucian's Progress will force readers to think about the relationship between turning points in literary expression and social change, and about how the constraints (or conventions) of established genres limit or shape biographical and autobiographical writings."--Joanna F. Handlin Smith, The Journal of Asian Studies
Author : Marjorie Dryburgh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137368578
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010 written by Marjorie Dryburgh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Pei-Yi Wu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691015248
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (152 download)
Download or read book The Confucian's Progress written by Pei-Yi Wu and published by . This book was released on 1992-03-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the widely held belief that autobiography is a unique product of the West, Pei-yi Wu demonstrates that writing about the self did thrive in one non-Western civilization. The pages of this first full-length treatment of Chinese autobiography teem with fascinating individuals each of whom has a story to tell--champions of lost causes explaining their impending martyrdom to posterity, earnest Buddhists and Confucians reporting on their spiritual quests, irrepressible and inventive egotists indulging in self-celebration, and distressed moralists confessing their sins. Affording the reader a view of some never before examined aspects of the Chinese psyche, The Confucian's Progress is also an accessible introduction to Chinese history and literature. "A highly intelligent--and thoroughly intelligible--book-length essay on autobiographical writings in China.... With its ample and readable translations of a dazzling array of scarce Chinese texts alone, this book will reward readers. Moreover, The Confucian's Progress will force readers to think about the relationship between turning points in literary expression and social change, and about how the constraints (or conventions) of established genres limit or shape biographical and autobiographical writings."--Joanna F. Handlin Smith, The Journal of Asian Studies
Author : Jing M. Wang
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299225100
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (251 download)
Download or read book When "I" was Born written by Jing M. Wang and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Wang Ying
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783330343825
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Medieval Chinese Autobiographical Writing: The Self-Written Epitaph written by Wang Ying and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wendy Larson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Literary Authority and the Modern Chinese Writer written by Wendy Larson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century, Chinese writers have confronted the problem of creating a new literary tradition that both maintains the culturally unique aspects of a rich heritage and succeeds in promoting a new modernity. In the first book-length treatment of the topic, Wendy Larson examines the contradictory forms of authority at work in the autobiographical texts of modern Chinese writers and scholars and the way these conflicts helped to shape and determine the manner in which writers viewed themselves, their texts, and their work. Larson focuses on the most famous writers associated with the May Fourth Movement, a group most active in the 1920s and 1930s, and their fundamental ambivalence about writing. She analyzes how their writing paradoxically characterized textual labor as passive, negative, and inferior to material labor and the more physical political work of social progress, and she describes the ways they used textual means to devalue literary labor. The impact of China's increasing contact with the West--particularly the ways in which Western notions of "individualism" and "democracy" influenced Chinese ideologies of self and work--is considered. Larson also studies the changes in China's social structure, notably those linked to the abolition in 1905 of the educational exam system, which subsequently broke the link between the mastery of certain texts and the attainment of political power, further denigrating the cultural role of the writer.
Author : Martin Huang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804763925
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Literati and Self-Re/Presentation written by Martin Huang and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the Chinese novel in the eighteenth century, arguably one of the greatest periods of the genre, focuses on the autobiographical features of three important works: The Dream of the Red Chamber, or The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng), The Scholars (Rulin waishi), and the relatively neglected The Humble Words of an Old Rustic (Yesou puyan). The author seeks for answers to the question of why the Chinese novel was becoming increasingly autobiographical during the eighteenth century, even as explicitly autobiographical writing was in a decline. He suggests that several new trends in the development of the genre (such as the accelerated "literatization" process) and the changing status of literati contributed to the rise of this new feature of the novel. As office-holding became increasingly unavailable to many literati, new roles and new identities that allowed them to retain a claim to membership in the elite had to be found. The novel, with its ability to distance an author from himself, facilitated the exploration of alternative roles and identities. Through close readings of the three texts, the author examines various autobiographical strategies employed by the authors, among which "masking as other"—How the authorial self is re/presented as an other - stands out as the most significant. The book links the authors' obsession with masks both to an increasingly ambiguous sense of self-identity experienced by many literati and to the larger issue of literati self-representation. Throughout, the readings do not confine themselves to purely literary matters; they also analyze the three works as a complex artifact typical of literati "self" culture and situate them in the larger intellectual history of the period.
Author : Hsieh Ping-Ying
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136210539
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Autobiography Of A Chinese Girl written by Hsieh Ping-Ying and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2010. At the beginning of this quarter of a century Chinese women still concealed herslef in her boudoir, and confined herself to needlework and embroidery, cooking and wahing nad sometimes composing poetry. This conservative tradition had lasted several thousand years. Only during the ned of the twenry five years a new China was born. The spirit of this period of change is expressed in the autobiography written around 1926.
Author : Lingzhen Wang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Modern and Contemporary Chinese Women's Autobiographical Writing written by Lingzhen Wang and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew V. Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780924304583
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (45 download)
Download or read book To Die and Not Decay written by Matthew V. Wells and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines the autobiographical writing of Ge Hong (ca. 283-343) and compares it to other early texts of the genre. A minor official during the early Eastern Jin dynasty, 317-420, Ge Hong is best known for his interest in Daoism, alchemy, and techniques of longevity. But this book focuses on the two authorial postfaces appended to his most celebrated work, Baopuzi, translated as The Master Embracing Simplicity. Among his topics are the proscriptive power of genre, reading self-narrative and the self in early China, and transcending history through autobiography. Two other early texts concerning early autobiography are translated and appended in alternating paragraphs of Chinese and English.
Author : Jue Lu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Beyond the May Fourth Self written by Jue Lu and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation explores a range of traditional autobiographical genres and multimedia autobiographical practices from the 1900s to the 1930s, including classical poetry, traditional vernacular novels, annalistic autobiography along with a modernized traditional form, self-inscribed photographic portraits. It aims to challenge the prevailing interpretative paradigm in modern Chinese literature that prizes Western discourses of individualism, selfhood and inwardness, which defines and legitimizes modern Chinese autobiographical writing by its drastic break with Chinese literary tradition. Much scholarly attention has focused on the western-style modern Chinese autobiographical writings from 1920s to 1940s. However, my archive research shows that this modern western-style autobiography is only one among many options of literary and artistic forms of autobiographical expressions that modern Chinese writers had chosen. Traditional autobiographical genres and practices had been extensively employed both before and throughout the May Fourth period. Combining approaches of literary analysis and visual culture studies, my dissertation argues that these traditional writers' adaptations of and innovations on the traditional autobiographical genres provide alternative visions of self that not only interact with but also significantly complicate the May Fourth agenda of egotistic subjectivity.My dissertation includes four analytical chapters. Chapter 1 analyzes the late Qing guixiu poet Shi Shuyi's (1876-1945) autobiographical poetry, scholarly projects and self-inscribed photographic portraits. This chapter discusses how women writers made innovative use of modern photographic technology and the new print media to reconfigure their inherited literary tradition, creating a new subject position that is beyond the presumed antithesis between guixiu (talented woman from the inner quarters) and new woman. Chapter 2 examines Zeng Jifen's (1852-1942) two editions of self-edited nianpu (annalistic autobiography) published in 1930s. Discussing its text, paratexts and context, I argue Zeng's autobiographical nianpu attests to the "collaborative nature" of the nianpu genre that can register distinctive female experiences and empower women's self-representation. Chapter 3 deals with Liu E's (1857-1909) philosophical autobiographical novel The Travels of Lao Can. My discussion revolves around the core concept of you (i.e.travel, wandering, boundary-crossing), on stylistic, discursive and philosophical levels, that not only imparts to the novel a narrative structure, but also serves as a philosophical trope of Liu E's understanding of "no-self" (non-identity, non-particularity). Chapter 4 discusses Su Manshu's (1884-1918) autobiographical novella The Lone Swan. I investigate how the performative nature of Su's self-representation and language style can dissolve the construction of modern sentimental subjectivity.
Author : Ch'ung-yi Chu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Fu-sheng Liu-chi written by Ch'ung-yi Chu and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
