China from the Margins
eBook - ePub

China from the Margins

New Narratives of the Past and Present

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

China from the Margins

New Narratives of the Past and Present

About this book

This book explores and brings to light untold stories from the margins of Chinese society. It investigates and reveals grassroots and popular cultural beliefs, amusing anecdotes, items of lore, and accounts of the strange and the unusual. It delves into questions of identity formation, considering gender, sexuality, class, generational divides, subcultures, national minorities and online communities. It examines heritage-making practices and the persistence of marginalized memories. Bringing together views from cultural studies, literature, gender studies, cultural heritage, sociology, history and more, the book argues that neither the margins nor the centre can be understood in isolation, and that by focusing on the margins, a fuller picture of Chinese society overall emerges, including new perspectives on spatial and social marginality, on hierarchies of marginality, and on neglected spaces, voices and identities.

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Yes, you can access China from the Margins by Emily Williams, Loredana Cesarino, Emily Williams,Loredana Cesarino in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Science Research & Methodology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of contributors
  9. Preface
  10. China from the Margins: Introduction
  11. 1. Jewish Models and Modelling Jews: Representations of Jews and Jewishness in the Harbin Jewish Museum
  12. 2. Austrian Jewish Exiles from the Margins of China: Mark Siegelberg, Hans Schubert, Susanne Wantoch, and Richard Frey
  13. 3. Hegemonic Han Identities and Alternative Subjectivities: The Contemporary Hanfu Movement as a Marginal Cross-generational Subculture
  14. 4. Place, Home, and People in the Making: Stories of Liangzhu Culture Village
  15. 5. Marginal Histories at the Centre of the Revolution: Red Collecting in Shaanbei1
  16. 6. Marginality as a Dreamland: Native Place, Everyday Life, Nostalgia, and Coming of Age in Three Works by Wei Wei
  17. 7. The Inn in Wuxia Narratives
  18. 8. From the Periphery of Literature: Marginal Urban Lives and Recognition(s) in the Picun Literature Group
  19. 9. Returning to a Marginal Genre: Liminal Space and the Revival of Gui 鬼 in Mo Yan’s Fantastic Tales
  20. 10. Mistresses, Maids, and Servants’ Wives in Lin Lan Xiang: The Everyday Life of Women in a Fictional Late Imperial Chinese Elite Household
  21. 11. Four Marginalised Women and Loser Subculture in Ren Xiaowen’s Novel Life Is Like That
  22. 12. Marginal Fears in Yue Jun’s ‘Ershilu’ 耳食录 (1792–94): Terror and desire in the story of Hu Haohao
  23. Index