Sarah Dauncey

Disability in Contemporary China

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781107118539
• ISBN-10: 1107118530
• Artikelnr.: 58734024

Autorenporträt

Sarah Dauncey is Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. She has published extensively on identity, disability, gender and culture from late imperial times to the present. She is co-editor of Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010: Histories of the Elusive Self (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction. Understanding disability and citizenship in China
1. Where did all the disabled people go? Cultural invisibility before 1976
2. Backstage to centre stage: new heroes in the age of reform
3. Entertainment or education? Disability and the cinematic imagination
4. A narrative prosthesis? Disability and the literary imagination
5. Blind, but not in the dark: realism sheds new light on visual impairment
6. Private lives for public consumption: writing our disabled life stories
conclusion: the perils and possibilities of para-citizenship
References
Index.