Chinese Concepts of Privacy

by McDougall, Bonnie S.; Hansson, Anders

ISBN13:
9789004127661
ISBN10:
9004127666
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2002-09-01
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
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Summary

The contents range from inscriptions on early bronzes, personal letters in early imperial China, medical case histories in late imperial China, fictional representations of private experiences, and Liang Qichao's reevaluations of privacy to the values given to privacy by Lu Xun.

Acknowledgements

vii

PART I: INTRODUCTION

Particulars and Universals: Studies on Chinese Privacy

(24)

Bonnie S. McDougall

PART II: EXPERIENCING PRIVACY

Solitude, Silence and Concealment: Boundaries of the Social Body in Ming Dynasty China

(27)

Charlotte Furth

Privacy in Dream of the Red Chamber

(27)

Cathy Silber

PART III: INSCRIBING PRIVACY

Studying the Private Sphere of the Ancient Chinese Nobility through the Inscriptions on Bronze Ritual Vessels

(16)

Maria Khayutina

Privacy and Letter Writing in Han and Six Dynasties China

(24)

David Pattinson

PART IV: NEGOTIATING PRIVACY

The Origins of Modern Chinese Concepts of Privacy: Notes on Social Structure and Moral Discourse

121

(26)

Peter Zarrow

Functions and Values of Privacy in the Correspondence between Lu Xun and Xu Guangping, 1925-1929

147

(24)

Bonnie S. McDougall

PART V: EXPOSING PRIVACY

Privacy and its III Effects in Post-Mao Urban Fiction

171

(24)

Robin Visser

The Extrication of Memory in Tie Ning's Woman Showering: Privacy and the Trap of History

195

(16)

Chen Xiaoming

PART VI: CONCLUSION

Reflections on Privacy in China

211

(20)

Stephan Feuchtwang

Glossary

231

(6)

Index

237

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