Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010

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

List of Illustrations Preface Notes on the contributors Introduction: Writing and Reading Chinese Lives; Marjorie Dryburgh 1. Chinese Life Writing: Themes and Variations; Marjorie Dryburgh and Sarah Dauncey 2. Self-representation in the Dramas of Ruan Dacheng (1587-1646); Alison Hardie 3. 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 4. The Fugitive Self: Writing Zheng Xiaoxu, 1882-1938; Marjorie Dryburgh 5. Destabilising the Truths of Revolution: Strategies of Subversion in the Autobiographical Writing of Political Women in China; Nicola Spakowski 6. Zhang Xianliang: Recensions of the Self; Chloe Starr 7. Whose Life is it anyway? Disabled Life Stories in Post-reform China; Sarah Dauncey 8. A Look at the Margins: Autobiographical Writing in Tibetan in the People's Republic of China; Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy Bibliography Index