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  1. The happy Hsiungs
    performing China and the struggle for modernity
    Author: Yeh, Diana
    Published: 2014; © 2014
    Publisher:  Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, China

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789888208173; 9789888268580
    Series: RAS China in Shanghai series
    Subjects: Autobiographical fiction; Biography as a literary form; American literature; American literature; Schriftsteller; Chinesen; Dramatiker; Kulturvermittlung; Literarisches Leben
    Other subjects: Xiong, Shiyi (1902-1991); Hsiung, Dymia (1905-1987)
    Scope: 1 online resource (225 pages, [20] pages of plates), illustrations, photographs
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 11, 2014)

  2. The Happy Hsiungs
    performing China and the struggle for modernity
    Author: Yeh, Diana
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  University Press, Hong Kong

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9789888208173; 9888208179
    Subjects: Chinesen; Schriftsteller; Dramatiker; Kulturvermittlung; Literarisches Leben; Großbritannien;
    Scope: 190 S., [10] Bl., Ill.
  3. The Happy Hsiungs
    Performing China and the Struggle for Modernity
    Author: Yeh, Diana
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Hong Kong University Press, HKU, Hong Kong

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789888208173; 9789888268580; 9888208179; 9888268589
    Series: RAS China in Shanghai series of China Monographs
    Subjects: Autobiographical fiction / History and criticism; Biography as a literary form; Literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Literature / 20th century / History and criticism; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Literatur; Chinese; Social integration; Authors, Chinese; Chinesen; Kulturvermittlung; Schriftsteller; Dramatiker; Literarisches Leben
    Other subjects: Hsiung, S. I. (1902-1991); Hsiung, Dymia; Xiong, Shiyi (1902-1991); Hsiung, Dymia (1905-1987)
    Scope: 1 online resource (225 pages)
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    Between 1935 and 1936, the play Lady Precious Stream was a big success as being performed and running for 1,000 nights at the Little Theatre in London. Its writer-director, Shih-I Hsiung, was the first Chinese person to direct a West End play. Hsiung's wife, Dymia, was also remarkable as the first Chinese woman in Britain to publish a fictional autobiography in English. By retrieving the lost histories of these two celebrated writers, this book considers how ideas of China and Chineseness are circulated and contested globally. Though fêted as 'The Happy Hsiungs', their lives ultimately highlig

  4. The Happy Hsiungs
    Performing China and the Struggle for Modernity
    Author: Yeh, Diana
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Hong Kong University Press, HKU, Hong Kong

    Between 1935 and 1936, the play Lady Precious Stream was a big success as being performed and running for 1,000 nights at the Little Theatre in London. Its writer-director, Shih-I Hsiung, was the first Chinese person to direct a West End play.... more

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    Between 1935 and 1936, the play Lady Precious Stream was a big success as being performed and running for 1,000 nights at the Little Theatre in London. Its writer-director, Shih-I Hsiung, was the first Chinese person to direct a West End play. Hsiung's wife, Dymia, was also remarkable as the first Chinese woman in Britain to publish a fictional autobiography in English. By retrieving the lost histories of these two celebrated writers, this book considers how ideas of China and Chineseness are circulated and contested globally. Though fêted as 'The Happy Hsiungs', their lives ultimately highlig

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789888208173
    Subjects: American literature ; 19th century ; History and criticism; American literature ; 20th century ; History and criticism; Autobiographical fiction ; History and criticism; Biography as a literary form; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (225 p)
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    Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration; Prelude; 1. Adrift in New China: Learning, Love and Labour; 2. 'Try Something Different. Something Really Chinese'; 3. 'The Greatest Success': The Rise to Global Fame; 4. China Fashion and the Politics of Success; 5. The Kaleidoscope of China: Authenticity, Orientalism and Discontents; 6. The End to Old Cathay?; 7. 'Looking Like an English Household': Performing Class, Family and Home; 8. Goddess, Housewife, Writer; 9. Into the Shadows; 10. Global and Contemporary Revivals; Afterword; Glossary of Names; Notes

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  5. The Happy Hsiungs
    performing China and the struggle for modernity
    Author: Yeh, Diana
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  University Press, Hong Kong

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    1 A 915684
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9789888208173; 9888208179
    Subjects: Chinesen; Schriftsteller; Dramatiker; Kulturvermittlung; Literarisches Leben; Großbritannien;
    Scope: 190 S., [10] Bl., Ill.