05084nam 2200613 450 991045317820332120200520144314.00-295-80491-2(CKB)2550000001193234(EBL)3444566(SSID)ssj0001083945(PQKBManifestationID)12413497(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001083945(PQKBWorkID)11022135(PQKB)11345743(MiAaPQ)EBC3444566(OCoLC)875447130(MdBmJHUP)muse27815(Au-PeEL)EBL3444566(CaPaEBR)ebr10822082(OCoLC)867049785(EXLCZ)99255000000119323420130910h20132013 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe world of a tiny insect a memoir of the Taiping rebellion and its aftermath /by Zhang Daye ; translated, with an introduction, by Xiaofei TianSeattle :University of Washington Press,[2013]©20131 online resource (224 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-295-99318-9 0-295-99317-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Map of Author's Travels""; ""Translator's Introduction""; ""Preface by Zhang Daye""; ""Part 1.""; ""Trip to Tiantai""; ""An Account of Taizhou Prefecture""; ""The Six Counties of Taizhou""; ""The "One-Headed Woman" at Huangyan""; ""Ten Poems on Xianju""; ""The Birds of Xianju""; ""Part 2.""; ""Birth and Early Childhood""; ""On the Run: 1861-1863""; """Flames of War," Ghost Troops, and Other Strange Happenings""; ""Epidemic, Greed, and the Woman Dismembered at Lu's Dyke""; ""The Occupation of Shaoxing and Its Aftermath""; ""Edible Flora and Fauna""""The Pleasures and Horrors of Childhood""""Narrow Escapes on Water""; ""Reunion with Father and Father's Death""; ""Part 3.""; ""The Nian Uprising""; ""The Assassination of Governor Ma Xinyi""; ""Remembering Cousin Xuequan""; ""Travels for Livelihood after Father's Death""; ""Trip to Shaoxing for Father's Burial""; ""Return to Yuanjiang""; ""Trip to Hangzhou""; ""Sojourn at Songjiang""; ""Sojourn at Suzhou""; ""Trips to Hangzhou, Shaoxing, and Xianju""; ""Friends at Xianju""; ""The Bandits of Xianju""; ""Chronology""; ""Appendix: A List of the Author's Connections""; ""Works Cited""""Index"""From the cry of a tiny insect, one can hear the sound of a vast world. "So begins Zhang Daye's preface to The World of a Tiny Insect, his haunting memoir of war and its aftermath. In 1861, when China's devastating Taiping rebellion began, Zhang was seven years old. The Taiping rebel army occupied Shaoxing, his hometown, and for the next two years, he hid from Taiping soldiers, local bandits, and imperial troops and witnessed gruesome scenes of violence and death. He lost friends and family and nearly died himself from starvation, illness, and encounters with soldiers on rampages.Written thirty years later, The World of a Tiny Insect gives voice to this history. A rare premodern Chinese literary work depicting a child's perspective, Zhang's sophisticated text captures the macabre images, paranoia, and emotional excess that defined his wartime experience and echoed throughout his adult life. The structure, content, and imagery of The World of a Tiny Insect reveals a carefully crafted, fragmented narrative that skips in time and probes the relationships between trauma and memory, revealing both history and its psychic impact. Xiaofei Tian's annotated translation includes an introduction that situates The World of a Tiny Insect in Chinese history and literature and explores the relevance of the book to the workings of traumatic memory. Zhang Daye (b. 1854) is known only as the author of The World of a Tiny Insect. Xiaofei Tian is professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University. Among her recent publications is Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China."The author and narrator recounts his terrible experiences and miraculous survivals with a child's curiosity and in a vivid, straightforward way. But he also embeds what happened to him in a larger historical, philosophical, moral, and aesthetic context. No comparable primary source available in English does anything like this for the Taiping Rebellion." --Judith Zeitlin, University of Chicago"--Provided by publisher.ChinaHistoryTaiping Rebellion, 1850-1864Personal narrativesChinaHistory1861-1912ChinaBiographyElectronic books.951/.034092Zhang Daye1854-946138Tian Xiaofei1971-909204MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453178203321The world of a tiny insect2137527UNINA