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This innovative collection explores life stories produced in China
between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. These essays
draw on biographical and autobiographical narratives of men and
women, paragons and pariahs, taken from official histories,
personal diaries, plays, fiction and blogs, and use perspectives
taken from life writing theory to illuminate that work. Whereas
many earlier studies have emphasised the social rules of life
writing in China, and suggested that lives and selves were often
obscured by the weight of convention, the work in this volume shows
that the rules were often actively evaded or creatively exploited
by biographers and autobiographers, and suggest that a critical
understanding of those evasions and exploitations can better reveal
lives that were lived and written both within and against the rules
of the auto/biographical game.
Sarah Dauncey offers the first comprehensive exploration of
disability and citizenship in Chinese society and culture from 1949
to the present. Through the analysis of a wide variety of Chinese
sources, from film and documentary to literature and life writing,
media and state documents, she sheds important new light on the
ways in which disability and disabled identities have been
represented and negotiated over this time. She exposes the
standards against which disabled people have been held as the
Chinese state has grappled with expectations of what makes the
'ideal' Chinese citizen. From this, she proposes an exciting new
theoretical framework for understanding disabled citizenship in
different societies - 'para-citizenship'. A far more dynamic
relationship of identity and belonging than previously imagined,
her new reading synthesises the often troubling contradictions of
citizenship for disabled people - the perils of bodily and mental
difference and the potential for personal and group empowerment.
This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese
women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries.
It draws on both biographical and autobiographical narratives and
on perspectives taken from life writing theory to ask how lives
were lived and written within and against the rules of the
auto/biographical game.
This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese
women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries.
It draws on both biographical and autobiographical narratives and
on perspectives taken from life writing theory to ask how lives
were lived and written within and against the rules of the
auto/biographical game.
Sarah Dauncey offers the first comprehensive exploration of
disability and citizenship in Chinese society and culture from 1949
to the present. Through the analysis of a wide variety of Chinese
sources, from film and documentary to literature and life writing,
media and state documents, she sheds important new light on the
ways in which disability and disabled identities have been
represented and negotiated over this time. She exposes the
standards against which disabled people have been held as the
Chinese state has grappled with expectations of what makes the
'ideal' Chinese citizen. From this, she proposes an exciting new
theoretical framework for understanding disabled citizenship in
different societies - 'para-citizenship'. A far more dynamic
relationship of identity and belonging than previously imagined,
her new reading synthesises the often troubling contradictions of
citizenship for disabled people - the perils of bodily and mental
difference and the potential for personal and group empowerment.
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