The happy Hsiungs : performing China and the struggle for modernity / / Diana Yeh

• Autore: Yeh Diana
• Pubblicazione: Hong Kong, China : , : Hong Kong University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 895.185109
• Soggetto topico: Autobiographical fiction - History and criticism; Biography as a literary form; American literature - 19th century - History and criticism; American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The happy Hsiungs
• ISBN: 988-8268-59-7; 988-8268-58-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787707803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: RAS China in Shanghai series of China Monographs.