Writing Lives in China, 1600–2010

1. Introduction: Writing and Reading Chinese Lives
Marjorie Dryburgh

2. Chinese Life Writing: Themes and Variations
Marjorie Dryburgh, Sarah Dauncey

3. Self-representation in the Dramas of Ruan Dacheng (1587–1646)
Alison Hardie

4. How to Write a Woman’s Life Into and Out of History: Wang Zhaoyuan (1763–1851) and Biographical Study in Republican China
Harriet T. Zurndorfer

5. The Fugitive Self: Writing Zheng Xiaoxu, 1882–1938
Marjorie Dryburgh

6. Destabilising the Truths of Revolution: Strategies of Subversion in the Autobiographical Writing of Political Women in China
Nicola Spakowski

7. Zhang Xianliang: Recensions of the Self
Chloë Starr

8. Whose Life Is It Anyway? Disabled Life Stories in Post-reform China
Sarah Dauncey

9. A Look at the Margins: Autobiographical Writing in Tibetan in the People’s Republic of China
Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy

Nyckelord: Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Fiction, Literary Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Asian Literature, Cultural Theory