Sarah Dauncey (University of Nottingham)

Disability in Contemporary China

Citizenship, Identity and Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Through innovative analysis of sources from film to literature and life writing, media and state documents, Dauncey explores disability and citizenship in China from 1949 to the present. She proposes a dynamic relationship of identity and belonging, encompassing both the perils of difference and the potential for empowerment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 245
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9781107544369
• ISBN-10: 110754436X
• Artikelnr.: 64464445

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.