LEADER 03171nam 2200661 450 001 9910787707803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a988-8268-59-7 010 $a988-8268-58-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000537694 035 $a(EBL)1644162 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001159848 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11793545 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001159848 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11120237 035 $a(PQKB)11252861 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000862401 035 $a(OCoLC)885456067 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35582 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1644162 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10842781 035 $a(OCoLC)871781902 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1644162 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000537694 100 $a20140312h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe happy Hsiungs $eperforming China and the struggle for modernity /$fDiana Yeh 210 1$aHong Kong, China :$cHong Kong University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 225 1 $aRAS China in Shanghai series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a988-8208-17-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIllustrations -- 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. 330 $aThe Happy Hsiungs recovers the histories of two married Chinese writers who lived and worked in Britain from the 1930's onwards. Shih-I Hsiung shot to worldwide fame with his play "Lady Precious Stream," while Dymia Hsiung was the first Chinese woman to publish a fictional autobiography in English of her life in Britain. 410 0$aRAS China in Shanghai series of China Monographs. 606 $aAutobiographical fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBiography as a literary form 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAutobiographical fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBiography as a literary form. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a895.185109 700 $aYeh$b Diana$01476348 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787707803321 996 $aThe happy Hsiungs$93690935 997 $aUNINA