China from the Margins

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.

Autorentext

Emily Williams is an Associate Professor in the Department of China Studies at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

Loredana Cesarino is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of China Studies at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

Inhalt

List of Figures

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction (Emily Williams & Loredana Cesarino)

Part 1: Marginal Identities & Subcultures

Chapter 1: Corey K. N. Schultz, `Jewish Models and Modelling Jews: Representations of Jews & Jewishness in the Harbin Jewish Museum

Chapter 2: Brian Haman, `Austrian Jewish Exiles from the Margins of China: Mark Siefelberg, Hans Schubert, Susanne Wantoch, and Richard Frey

Chapter 3: Andrew Law & Qianqian Qin, `Hegemonic Han Identities & alternative subjectivities: the contemporary Hanfu movement as a marginal cross-generational subculture

Part 2: Memory in/of Marginal Places

Chapter 4: Yu Hua, `Place, Home & People in the Making: Stories of Liangzhu Culture Village

Chapter 5: Emily Williams, `Marginal histories at the Centre of the Revolution: Red Collecting in Shaanbei

Chapter 6: Giulia Rampolla, `Marginality as a Dreamland: Native Place, Everyday Life, Nostalgia and Coming of Age in Three Works of Wei Wei

Part 3: Marginal Spaces in Literature

Chapter 7: Janice Kam, `The Inn in Wuxia Narratives

Chapter 8: Federico Picerni, `From the Periphery of Literature: Marginal Urban Lives and Recognition(s) in the Picun Literature Group

Chapter 9: Eugenia Tizzano, `Returning to a Marginal Genre: Liminal Space and the Return of Gui in Mo Yan s Fantastic Tales

Part 4: Gender at the Margins of Literature

Chapter 10: Barbara Witt, `Mistresses, Maids and Servants Wives in Lin Lan Xiang: The Everyday Life of Women in a Fictional Late Imperial Chinese Elite Household

Chapter 11: Li Meng, `Four Marginalized Women and Loser Subculture in the Ren Xiaowen s Fiction Life is Like That

Chapter 12: Cesarino Loredana, `Marginal Fears in Yue Jun s Ershilu (1792-94): Terror and Desire in the Story of Hu Haohao

Index