Ihor Pidhainy & Roger Des Forges 
Representing Lives in China [PDF ebook] 
Forms of Biography in the Ming-Qing Period 1368–1911

Preface

Introduction

I Searching for the Subjects: Life Stories and Biographical Accounts

1. Kubilai’s Empresses: Biographical Perspectives George Q Zhao

2. Surname Restoration Petitions and the Mutability of the Patriline in Ming China Joe Dennis

3. The Chinese Scholar-Rebel-Advisor Li Yan in the History and Literature of the Twentieth Century Roger Des Forges

4. Between Collaboration and Resistance: The Third Way of Mao Xiang (1611-1693) Jun Fang

II Understanding the Authors: Portraying lives in Various Media

5. Wang Shizhen as Biographer: Genres and Agendas Kenneth Hammond

6. Painting a Dual Biography Elizabeth Kindall

7. Engendering Lives: Women as Self-Appointed and Sought-After Biographers in the Qing Dynasty Grace S. Fong

III Following the Texts: Creation, Publication, and Transmission

8. Re-Collecting Yue Fei: Yue Ke, Jintuo cui bian, and the Making of a Chinese Hero Leo Shin

9. Fathers and Sons in the Mingshi: A Thematic Reading of a State History Ihor Pidhainy

10. Loyalty, History, and Empire: Qian Qianyi and his Korean Biographies Sixiang Wang

11. From Female Martyrs to Worthy Mothers: The Shift in Exemplary Women’s Biographies in the Ming and Qing Dynastic Histories Jolan Yi

Conclusion

Bibliography

Appendices/Tables

Index

About Contributors

Ihor Pidhainy is Assistant Professor of History at University of West Georgia, whose research focuses on political, social, and intellectual history of China in the late imperial period (1300–1900).Roger Des Forges is Professor Emeritus of History at State University of New York at Buffalo, specializing in Chinese cultural, political, and social history.Grace S. Fong is Professor of Chinese Literature at Mc Gill University, with expertise in classical Chinese poetry and poetics, literary theory and criticism, and gender and women’s writing.