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List of Illustrations Preface Notes on the contributorsIntroduction: Writing and Reading Chinese Lives; Marjorie Dryburgh 1. Chinese Life Writing: Themes and Variations; Marjorie Dryburgh and Sarah Dauncey2. Self-representation in the Dramas of Ruan Dacheng (1587-1646); Alison Hardie3. How to Write a Woman's Life Into and Out of History: Wang Zhaoyuan (1763-1851) and Biographical Study in Republican China; Harriet T. Zurndorfer4. The Fugitive Self: Writing Zheng Xiaoxu, 1882-1938; Marjorie Dryburgh5. Destabilising the Truths of Revolution: Strategies of Subversion in the Autobiographical Writing of Political Women in China; Nicola Spakowski6. Zhang Xianliang: Recensions of the Self; Chloe Starr7. Whose Life is it anyway? Disabled Life Stories in Post-reform China; Sarah Dauncey8. A Look at the Margins: Autobiographical Writing in Tibetan in the People's Republic of China; Isabelle Henrion-DourcyBibliography Index.
Writing lives in China, 1600-2010 : histories of the elusive self. ISBN 9781137368560. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.