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  1. The happy Hsiungs
    performing China and the struggle for modernity
    Author: Yeh, Diana
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Project Muse, Baltimore, Maryland

    The Happy Hsiungs recovers the histories of two married Chinese writers who lived and worked in Britain from the 1930s onwards. Shih-I Hsiung shot to worldwide fame with his play "Lady Precious Stream," while Dymia Hsiung was the first Chinese woman... more

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    The Happy Hsiungs recovers the histories of two married Chinese writers who lived and worked in Britain from the 1930s onwards. Shih-I Hsiung shot to worldwide fame with his play "Lady Precious Stream," while Dymia Hsiung was the first Chinese woman to publish a fictional autobiography in English of her life in Britain.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789888268580
    Series: RAS China in Shanghai series
    UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Subjects: Social integration; Chinese; Authors, Chinese
    Other subjects: Hsiung, S. I. (1902-1991); Hsiung, Dymia
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
  2. The Happy Hsiungs
    Performing China and the Struggle for Modernity
    Author: Yeh, Diana
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Hong Kong University Press, HKU, Hong Kong

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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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