03171nam 2200661 450 991082407060332120200520144314.0988-8268-59-7988-8268-58-9(CKB)2670000000537694(EBL)1644162(SSID)ssj0001159848(PQKBManifestationID)11793545(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001159848(PQKBWorkID)11120237(PQKB)11252861(StDuBDS)EDZ0000862401(OCoLC)885456067(MdBmJHUP)muse35582(Au-PeEL)EBL1644162(CaPaEBR)ebr10842781(OCoLC)871781902(MiAaPQ)EBC1644162(EXLCZ)99267000000053769420140312h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe happy Hsiungs performing China and the struggle for modernity /Diana YehHong Kong, China :Hong Kong University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (225 p.)RAS China in Shanghai seriesDescription based upon print version of record.988-8208-17-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.RAS China in Shanghai series of China Monographs.Autobiographical fictionHistory and criticismBiography as a literary formAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAutobiographical fictionHistory and criticism.Biography as a literary form.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.895.185109Yeh Diana1717648MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824070603321The happy Hsiungs4114047UNINA