The Experience of Modernity: Chinese Autobiography of the Early Twentieth Century
by Janet Ng
Examines the aftershocks of the Chinese vernacular reform movement as expressed in early twentieth-century autobiography
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Overview
Examines the aftershocks of the Chinese vernacular reform movement as expressed in early twentieth-century autobiography
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780472098217
- Publisher:
- University of Michigan Press
- Publication date:
- 05/12/2003
- Pages:
- 192
- Product dimensions:
- 7.16(w) x 8.54(h) x 0.75(d)
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Ch. 1 | A New Strategy for Autobiographical Narratives: Chen Hengzhe's Writing of Aurality | 21 |
| Ch. 2 | Fragmented Subjectivities: A Reconsideration of Women's Literary Mirrors | 41 |
| Ch. 3 | Nationalism and the Gestural System of Self-Expression | 69 |
| Ch. 4 | Names and Destiny: Hu Shi's and Lu Xun's Self-Nomination through Autobiography | 91 |
| Ch. 5 | A Moral Landscape: Reading Shen Congwen's Autobiography and Travelogues | 119 |
| Conclusion | 145 | |
| Notes | 151 | |
| Bibliography | 175 | |
| Index | 189 |
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