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Yeh Diana |
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Titolo |
The happy Hsiungs : performing China and the struggle for modernity / / Diana Yeh |
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Hong Kong, China : , : Hong Kong University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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988-8268-59-7 |
988-8268-58-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Collana |
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RAS China in Shanghai series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Autobiographical fiction - History and criticism |
Biography as a literary form |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Happy Hsiungs recovers the histories of two married Chinese writers who lived and worked in Britain from the 1930's 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 English of her life in Britain. |
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