Autobiography Of A Chinese Girl

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-96419-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 283 g

First published in 2010. At the beginning of this quarter of a century Chinese women still concealed herslef in her boudoir, and confined herself to needlework and embroidery, cooking and wahing nad sometimes composing poetry. This conservative tradition had lasted several thousand years. Only during the ned of the twenry five years a new China was born. The spirit of this period of change is expressed in the autobiography written around 1926.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ping-Ying, Hsieh

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION; Part 1 MY CHILDHOOD; Chapter 1 WHAT MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD ME; Chapter 2 MY FAMILY; Chapter 3 THE GOLDEN DAYS OF MY CHILDHOOD; Chapter 4 TEA-GIRLS AND SPINNING-MAIDENS; Chapter 5 MY FIRST SUFFERING; Chapter 6 THE VILLAGE PRIVATE SCHOOL; Chapter 7 MY UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE; Part 2 MY SCHOOLDAYS; Chapter 8 MY FIRST SCHOOL; Chapter 9 MORE SCHOOLS AND MORE TROUBLES; Chapter 10 HEADMASTER GRANDMA; Chapter 11 MY FIRST LITERARY ATTEMPT; Chapter 12 PLATONIC LOVE; Chapter 13 A PUBLIC LOVE LETTER; Chapter 14 THE BEGINNING OF MY STRUGGLES; Chapter 15 MY FIRST LOVE; Part 3 MY ARMY LIFE; Chapter 16 JOINING THE ARMY; Chapter 17 COUNTRY GIRLS AND THE TRAIN; Chapter 18 EXPELLED AGAIN; Chapter 19 SERVING IN THE RANKS; Chapter 20 ‘DOWN WITH LOVE!’; Chapter 21 SOME POINTS ON DISCIPLINE; Chapter 22 SETTING OUT; Chapter 23 AN INCIDENT ON THE ROAD; Chapter 24 NIGHT MARCH; Chapter 25 DEMOBILISATION; Part 4 MY PRISON LIFE AT HOME; Chapter 26 MY HOME-COMING; Chapter 27 MY QUARREL WITH MY MOTHER; Chapter 28 CONFINED BY MY MOTHER; Chapter 29 MY PILGRIMAGE; Chapter 30 BAD NEWS; Chapter 31 SECRET MEETING; Chapter 32 MY FIRST ATTEMPT AT ESCAPE; Chapter 33 SECOND ATTEMPT; Chapter 34 THIRD ATTEMPT; Part 5 MY WANDERING LIFE; Chapter 35 IN PRISON; Chapter 36 OUT OF PRISON; Chapter 37 THE SCHOOLMISTRESS; Chapter 38 UNDER SUSPICION; Chapter 39 THE NIGHT OF TERROR; Chapter 40 MORE TERRORS; Chapter 41 DELIVERANCE;

Über Autor(innen)

Hsieh Ping-Ying, Tsui Chi, Gordon Bottomley