How To Read a Chinese Book, 2

Zhao Baisheng, A Theory of Auto/Biography

Inspectional Reading, Pass 2.

Table of Contents, Translated with modfications and annotations:

Chapter 1: Biographical Fact

Section 1: Biographical Facts

Section 2: The "I" and its Milieu 周旋

Chapter 2: Biographical Fiction

Section 1: General Comments; Incredible Breadth, with a few Qing Scholars

Section 2:

Section 3: Incredible Range! Some Lu Xun near the end.

Chapter 3: Structure

Section 1: From Franklin To Yu Dafu

Section 2: Genealogy of Influence. General Comments, then Hu Shi.

Section 3: Unifying, Memorializing, Debunking

Chapter 4: Interpretation

Section 1: Frederick Douglass

Section 2, 3: Qu Qiubai

Section 4: Liang Qichao (on Wang Anshi, Li Hongzhang, Guan Zhong, and Zhang Qian (near the end))

Chapter 5: Towards a Canon

Section 1: Three Broad-axes 板斧 of New Biography

Section 2: A Short List of Masterworks

Fu Lei: Letters to my Family 傅雷家書

Han Shishan: Biography of Li Jianwu, Biography of Xu Zhimo. From the Report on the 2008 IABA Conference: "Uduma Kalu and Han Shishan's papers offered the potential of an examination of autobiographical traditions from Nigeria and China respectively, but the manner in which the papers were phrased and their mode of address limited interaction."

Ji Xianlin: Ten Years in Germany, Memories of the Cow Shed

Li Ao: Memoirs of Li Ao, Happily remembering My Enemies 李敖快意思仇錄

Liu Shahe 流沙河, 鋸齒嚙痕錄

Tang Degang: Memoires of Hu Shi

Wei Junyi: Si tong lu.

Xin Fengxia 新風霞: Memoirs of Xin Fengxia, When I was a Little Actress 小演員

Yang Jiang: Six Chapters of a Cadre School, Drink Tea, Memoires Decousus, We Three

Zhang Zhongxing: Four Books.

Conclusion