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Flawed Jade: Zhang Dai's Family Biographies

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dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Duncan
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T21:56:08Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.updated2020-12-27T07:33:45Z
dc.description.abstract<title/> In the voluminous writings of the second half of his long life, the bulk of which were produced after the fall of the Ming dynasty in 1644, the essayist and historian Zhang Dai (1597-?1684) reveals a particular and pronounced interest in issues to do with the craft of biographical and autobiographical writing. This paper examines several of the family-focused collective biographies later included in the major collection of his writings and discusses aspects of Zhang Dai�s explicit search for a �sense of authenticity� in his depictions. Just as it is the flaw in a piece of jade that serves to make it exquisite and unique, he argues, so to is it our flaws that make us worthy of a biography. � The Society for Ming Studies 2011.
dc.identifier.issn1759-7595
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/39278
dc.publisherManey Publishing
dc.sourceMing Studies
dc.titleFlawed Jade: Zhang Dai's Family Biographies
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issueNovember 2010
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage55
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage25
local.contributor.affiliationCampbell, Duncan, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidCampbell, Duncan, u4650685
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor200517 - Literature in Chinese
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4491231xPUB174
local.identifier.citationvolume62
local.identifier.doi10.1179/175975911X12962148497453
local.identifier.thomsonID000216155300002
local.type.statusPublished Version

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