Ink and Tears : : Memory, Mourning, and Writing in the Yu Family /

Ink and Tears : : Memory, Mourning, and Writing in the Yu Family / / Rania Huntington.

How does an extended family, bound by shared history, affection, and duty but divided by generation, gender, status, and personality, memorialize its dead? This fascinating study shows how members of the prominent Yu family passed down their personal and familial memories over five generations, thro...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Huntington, Rania,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 20 b&w illustrations, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. A GRAVE FOR TEETH, A GRAVE FOR BOOKS
  • PROLOGUE: IMPRESSIONS ON SNOW
  • 1. FROM THE PLUM RAFT TO THE TEA FRAGRANCE CHAMBER
  • 2. BRILLIANCE, FORTUNE, AND AN AILMENT OF THE HEART
  • 3. REMEMBERING PATTERNED SPLENDOR
  • 4. EMBROIDERY AND INK
  • 5. DOES SPRING REMAIN?
  • EPILOGUE: BEYOND FIVE GENERATIONS
  • APPENDIX
  • NOTES
  • GLOSSARY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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