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The experience of modernity : Chinese autobiography of the early twentieth century / Janet Ng.
LIBRA PL2395 .N49 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ng, Janet.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese prose literature--History and criticism.
- Chinese prose literature.
- Authors, Chinese--Biography.
- Authors, Chinese.
- Autobiography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 194 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Examines the aftershocks of the Chinese vernacular reform movement as expressed in early twentieth-century autobiography.
- Contents:
- A new strategy for autobiographical narratives : Chen Hengzhe's writing of aurality
- Fragmented subjectivities : a reconsideration of women's literary mirrors
- Nationalism and the gestural system of self-expression
- Names and destiny : Hu Shi's and Lu Xun's self-nomination through autobiography
- A moral landscape : reading Shen Congwen's autobiography and travelogues.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0472098217
- OCLC:
- 51222390
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