Representing Lives in China

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 McGill University, with expertise in classical Chinese poetry and poetics, literary theory and criticism, and gender and women's writing.

• PrefaceIntroduction I Searching for the Subjects: Life Stories and Biographical Accounts1. Kubilai's Empresses: Biographical Perspectives George Q Zhao2. Surname Restoration Petitions and the Mutability of the Patriline in Ming China Joe Dennis3. The Chinese Scholar-Rebel-Advisor Li Yan in the History and Literature of the Twentieth Century Roger Des Forges4. Between Collaboration and Resistance: The Third Way of Mao Xiang (1611-1693) Jun FangII Understanding the Authors: Portraying lives in Various Media5. Wang Shizhen as Biographer: Genres and Agendas Kenneth Hammond6. Painting a Dual Biography Elizabeth Kindall7. Engendering Lives: Women as Self-Appointed and Sought-After Biographers in the Qing Dynasty Grace S. FongIII Following the Texts: Creation, Publication, and Transmission8. Re-Collecting Yue Fei: Yue Ke, Jintuo cui bian, and the Making of a Chinese Hero Leo Shin9. Fathers and Sons in the Mingshi: A Thematic Reading of a State History Ihor Pidhainy10. Loyalty, History, and Empire: Qian Qianyi and his Korean Biographies Sixiang Wang11. From Female Martyrs to Worthy Mothers: The Shift in Exemplary Women's Biographies in the Ming and Qing Dynastic Histories Jolan YiConclusionBibliographyAppendices/TablesIndexAbout Contributors

In Representing Lives in China: Forms of Biography in the Ming-Qing Period 1368–1911, editors Ihor Pidhainy, Roger V. Des Forges, and Grace S. Fong bring together contributors to explore biographical constructions and reconstructions in China from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first century. [T]his volume showcases a collective effort to exhibit the richness and significance of life representations in China based on a variety of source material.(China Review International)