Chinese concepts of privacy / edited by Bonnie S. McDougall & Anders Hansson.

• Superior document: Sinica Leidensia ; v. 55
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: McDougall, Bonnie S., 1941-; Hansson, Anders, 1944-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Sinica Leidensia ; v. 55.
• Physical Description: vi, 241 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: PART I: INTRODUCTION -- Particulars and Universals: Studies on Chinese Privacy -- Bonnie S. McDougall -- PART II: EXPERIENCING PRIVACY -- Solitude, Silence and Concealment: Boundaries of the Social Body in Ming Dynasty China -- Charlotte Furth -- Privacy in Dream of the Red Chamber -- Cathy Silber -- PART III: INSCRIBING PRIVACY -- Studying the Private Sphere of the Ancient Chinese Nobility through the Inscriptions on Bronze Ritual Vessels -- Maria Khayutina -- Privacy and Letter Writing in Han and Six Dynasties China -- David Pattinson -- PART IV: NEGOTIATING PRIVACY -- The Origins of Modern Chinese Concepts of Privacy: Notes on Social Structure and Moral Discourse -- Peter Zarrow -- Functions and Values of Privacy in the Correspondence between Lu Xun and Xu Guangping, 1925-1929 -- Bonnie S. McDougall -- PART V: EXPOSING PRIVACY -- Privacy and its Ill Effects in Post-Mao Urban Fiction -- Robin Visser -- The Extrication of Memory in Tie Ning's Woman Showering: Privacy and the Trap of History -- Chen Xiaoming -- PART VI: CONCLUSION -- Reflections on Privacy in China -- Stephan Feuchtwang.