Love-Letters and Privacy in Modern China: The Intimate Lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping

ISBN-13: 9780199256792 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 320 str.

Bonnie S. McDougall; Xun Lu

Opis

This book opens up three new topics in modern Chinese literary history: the intimate lives of modern China's most famous literary couple, Lu Xun and Xu Guangping; real and imagined love-letters in modern Chinese literature; and the contents, functions, and values of privacy held by one couple in twentieth-century China as shown by a comparison between the edited and unedited versions of their letters.

O autorze

Bonnie S. McDougall is Professor of Chinese at the University of Edinburgh. During her career she has lectured at the University of Oslo, College of Foreign Affairs, Peking, Harvard University, and the University of Sydney, in addition to holding research positions at a number of international institutions. Her research interests include modern and contemporary Chinese literature, performing arts, and intellectual history; women in China; human rights, dissent literature, and censorship in China; and privacy. She has authored, edited, and translated numerous books and journal articles in these areas, including the award-winning The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century with Kam Louie (1997).