Chinese Autobiographical Writing : An Anthology of Personal Accounts.
"Chinese Autobiographical Writing contains full translations of autobiographical narratives, personal accounts, poems, and letters by fifty authors that reveal personal experiences as well as self-reflection by individuals from all walks of life over the course of Chinese history"--
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English text, partially translated from the Chinese. |
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[S.l.] :
UNIV OF WASHINGTON PRESS,
2023.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface And Acknowledgments
- Translation Conventions
- Chronology of imperial china with authors of autobiographies
- Introduction
- 1 A son's tribute to his mother
- 2 Crime and punishment
- 3 A han emperor accepting the blame
- 4 Letters home
- 5 a natural philosopher's account of his life
- 6 A father writing to his son
- 7 An abducted woman on returning home
- 8 Military men touting their merits
- 9 The pain of separation
- 10 An emperor's discourse on karma and vegetarianism
- 11 Late tang writers on life beyond office-holding
- 12 Mourning friends and relations
- 13 An advocate of the simple life
- 14 Records of things seen and heard
- 15 Chanting about oneself
- 16 an envoy's trip to the jin court
- 17 Women and suicide
- 18 Witnessing dynastic collapse
- 19 Peaceful abodes
- 20 A female doctor's life and work
- 21 An eccentric considers suicide
- 22 Life in the examination hell
- 23 A royal consort's song
- 24 environmental catastrophes
- 25 A con man posing as an official
- 26 A private secretary's itinerant life
- 27 Tibutes to close relatives
- 28 A teenager captured by the nian rebels
- 29 keeping family members informed
- Appendix
- Index