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The Experience of Modernity : Chinese Autobiography of the Early Twentieth Century.

Ng, Janet.

The Experience of Modernity : Chinese Autobiography of the Early Twentieth Century. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (209 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A New Strategy for Autobiographical Narratives : Chen Hengzhe's Writing of Aurality -- Fragmented Subjectivities : A Reconsideration of Women's Literary Mirrors -- Nationalism and the Gestural System of Self-Expression -- Names and Destiny : Hu Shi's and Lu Xun's Self-Nomination through Autobiography -- A Moral Landscape : Reading Shen Congwen's Autobiography and Travelogues -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Examines the aftershocks of the Chinese vernacular reform movement as expressed in early twentieth-century autobiography.

9780472024803


Authors, Chinese - Biography.


Electronic books.

PL2395

895.1/8509492

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