Representing Lives in China : : Forms of Biography in the Ming-Qing Period 1368–1911 /

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

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 motiv...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (478 p.) :; 14 b&w halftones
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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

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