Representing Lives in China : : Forms of Biography in the Ming-Qing Period 1368–1911 / / ed. by Grace S. Fong, Ihor Pidhainy, Roger Des Forges.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Dennis, Joseph,; Fang, Jun,; Fong, Grace S.,; Forges, Roger V. Des,; Hammond, Kenneth J.,; Jo-Lan, Yi,; Kindall, Elizabeth,; Pidhainy, Ihor,; Shin, Leo K.,; Wang, Sixiang,; Zhao, George Q.,
• HerausgeberIn: Des Forges, Roger,; Fong, Grace S.,; Pidhainy, Ihor,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (478 p.) :; 14 b&w halftones

The chapters in this ground-breaking volume examine the complex practices of biographical writing in Ming and Qing China. The authors draw on a rich variety of sources to answer some basic questions: Who were the writers of these texts and the subjects of their biographical constructions? What motivated these textual productions and sustained the routes from (re)creations to (re)publications? The informed and fascinating readings illuminate the enduring appeal of representing and represented lives in Chinese history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE SEARCHING FOR THE SUBJECTS Life Stories and Biographical Accounts -- 1 Kubilai’s Empresses Biographical Perspectives -- 2 Surname Restoration Petitions and the Mutability and Manipulability of Patriline in Ming China -- 3 The Chinese Scholar-Rebel-Advisor Li Yan in the History and Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century -- 4 Between Collaboration and Resistance: The Third Way of Mao Xiang (1611–1693) -- PART TWO UNDERSTANDING THE AUTHORS Portraying Lives in Various Media -- 5 Wang Shizhen as Biographer: Genres and Agendas -- 6 Painting a Dual Biography -- 7 Engendering Lives: Women as Self-Appointed and Sought-After Biographers in the Qing Dynasty -- PART THREE FOLLOWING THE TEXTS Creation, Publication, Revision, and Transmission -- 8 Re-Collecting Yue Fei: Yue Ke, Jintuo cui bian, and the Making of a Chinese Hero -- 9 Fathers and Sons in the Mingshi: A Thematic Reading of a State History -- 10 Loyalty, History, and Empire: Qian Qianyi and His Korean Biographies -- 11 From Female Martyrs to Worthy Mothers: The Shift in Exemplary Women’s Biographies in the Ming–Qing Dynastic Histories -- 12 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors