Scene‐Setting
Writing Biography in Chinese History
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 9422261 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Susan Mann (autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2009 |
| Volume | 114 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 631-639 |
| Data de publicação | 2009-06-01 |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Editora | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/ahr.114.3.631 |
| OpenAlex | W2164338819 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 7 |
FIELD, writing biography is a "natural."Life stories dominated imperial China's major historical works.The Chinese imperial elite was obsessed with remembering and recording lives: male and female, elite and commoner.These life stories were supposed to convey history's great moral lessons.The historian's job was to make sure the lessons were crystal-clear, and so most biographies were recorded in dramatic scenes, sparked with verbatim dialogue.It is impossible, as a historian working today, to resist the appeal of these stories.Their wit, empathy, and verisimilitude convey so much about individual character that, however idealized or one-sided a life story may be, the reader feels that on some level he has come to know that person.When in a recent research project I decided to set scenes as a way to organize my own biographical account of three generations of women in a nineteenth-century Chinese family, the results gave me unexpected insight into the explanatory power of this Chinese narrative strategy
Aesthetics · Appeal · Art · Biography · China · Elite · History of China · Life writing · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Verisimilitude · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · History · Law · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Philosophy, History, and Historiography
| Citações por ano | 0,44 |
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| Intervalo de citações | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Altamente citado | Não |