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The Happy Hsiungs : Performing China and the Struggle for Modernity /
The Happy Hsiungs recovers the histories of two married Chinese writers who lived and worked in Britain from the 1930s onwards. Shih-I Hsiung shot to worldwide fame with his play "Lady Precious Stream," while Dymia Hsiung was the first Chinese woman to publish a fictional autobiography in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2014.
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| Colección: | RAS China in Shanghai series of China Monographs.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Note on transliteration
- Prelude
- Chapter 1. Adrift in New China: learning, love and labour
- Chapter 2. 'Try something different. Something really Chinese'
- Chapter 3. 'The greatest success': the rise to global fame
- Chapter 4. China fashion and the politics of success
- Chapter 5. The kaleidoscope of China: authenticity, orientalism and discontents
- Chapter 6. The end to old Cathay?
- Chapter 7. 'Looking like an English household': performing class, family and home
- Chapter 8. Goddess, housewife, writer
- Chapter 9. Into the shadows
- Chapter 10. Global and contemporary revivals
- Afterword
- Glossary of names
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index.