China from the Margins

Emily Williams is an Associate Professor in the Department of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Loredana Cesarino is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

List of Figures

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction (Emily Williams & Loredana Cesarino)

Part 1: Marginal Identities & Subcultures

Chapter 1: Corey K. N. Schultz, ‘Jewish Models and Modelling Jews: Representations of Jews & Jewishness in the Harbin Jewish Museum’

Chapter 2: Brian Haman, ‘Austrian Jewish Exiles from the Margins of China: Mark Siefelberg, Hans Schubert, Susanne Wantoch, and Richard Frey’

Chapter 3: Andrew Law & Qianqian Qin, ‘Hegemonic Han Identities & alternative subjectivities: the contemporary Hanfu movement as a marginal cross-generational subculture’

Part 2: Memory in/of Marginal Places

Chapter 4: Yu Hua, ‘Place, Home & People in the Making: Stories of Liangzhu Culture Village’

Chapter 5: Emily Williams, ‘Marginal histories at the Centre of the Revolution: Red Collecting in Shaanbei’

Chapter 6: Giulia Rampolla, ‘Marginality as a Dreamland: Native Place, Everyday Life, Nostalgia and Coming of Age in Three Works of Wei Wei’

Part 3: Marginal Spaces in Literature

Chapter 7: Janice Kam, ‘The Inn in Wuxia Narratives’

Chapter 8: Federico Picerni, ‘From the Periphery of Literature: Marginal Urban Lives and Recognition(s) in the Picun Literature Group’

Chapter 9: Eugenia Tizzano, ‘Returning to a Marginal Genre: Liminal Space and the Return of Gui in Mo Yan’s Fantastic Tales’

Part 4: Gender at the Margins of Literature

Chapter 10: Barbara Witt, ‘Mistresses, Maids and Servants’ Wives in Lin Lan Xiang: The Everyday Life of Women in a Fictional Late Imperial Chinese Elite Household’

Chapter 11: Li Meng, ‘Four Marginalized Women and Loser Subculture in the Ren Xiaowen’s Fiction Life is Like That’

Chapter 12: Cesarino Loredana, ‘Marginal Fears in Yue Jun’s Ershilu 耳食录 (1792-94): Terror and Desire in the Story of Hu Haohao’

Index