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Chinese concepts of privacy [electronic resource] / edited by Bonnie S. McDougall & Anders Hansson.

Contributor(s): McDougall, Bonnie S, 1941- | Hansson, Anders, 1944- | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Sinica Leidensia: v. 55.Publisher: Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2002Description: vi, 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Privacy -- China -- History | China -- Social life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 177/.1 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: PART I: INTRODUCTION -- Particulars and Universals: Studies on Chinese Privacy -- Bonnie S. McDougall -- PART II: EXPERIENCING PRIVACY -- Solitude, Silence and Concealment: Boundaries of the Social Body in Ming Dynasty China -- Charlotte Furth -- Privacy in Dream of the Red Chamber -- Cathy Silber -- PART III: INSCRIBING PRIVACY -- Studying the Private Sphere of the Ancient Chinese Nobility through the Inscriptions on Bronze Ritual Vessels -- Maria Khayutina -- Privacy and Letter Writing in Han and Six Dynasties China -- David Pattinson -- PART IV: NEGOTIATING PRIVACY -- The Origins of Modern Chinese Concepts of Privacy: Notes on Social Structure and Moral Discourse -- Peter Zarrow -- Functions and Values of Privacy in the Correspondence between Lu Xun and Xu Guangping, 1925-1929 -- Bonnie S. McDougall -- PART V: EXPOSING PRIVACY -- Privacy and its Ill Effects in Post-Mao Urban Fiction -- Robin Visser -- The Extrication of Memory in Tie Ning's Woman Showering: Privacy and the Trap of History -- Chen Xiaoming -- PART VI: CONCLUSION -- Reflections on Privacy in China -- Stephan Feuchtwang.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: PART I: INTRODUCTION -- Particulars and Universals: Studies on Chinese Privacy -- Bonnie S. McDougall -- PART II: EXPERIENCING PRIVACY -- Solitude, Silence and Concealment: Boundaries of the Social Body in Ming Dynasty China -- Charlotte Furth -- Privacy in Dream of the Red Chamber -- Cathy Silber -- PART III: INSCRIBING PRIVACY -- Studying the Private Sphere of the Ancient Chinese Nobility through the Inscriptions on Bronze Ritual Vessels -- Maria Khayutina -- Privacy and Letter Writing in Han and Six Dynasties China -- David Pattinson -- PART IV: NEGOTIATING PRIVACY -- The Origins of Modern Chinese Concepts of Privacy: Notes on Social Structure and Moral Discourse -- Peter Zarrow -- Functions and Values of Privacy in the Correspondence between Lu Xun and Xu Guangping, 1925-1929 -- Bonnie S. McDougall -- PART V: EXPOSING PRIVACY -- Privacy and its Ill Effects in Post-Mao Urban Fiction -- Robin Visser -- The Extrication of Memory in Tie Ning's Woman Showering: Privacy and the Trap of History -- Chen Xiaoming -- PART VI: CONCLUSION -- Reflections on Privacy in China -- Stephan Feuchtwang.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.