The World Of A Tiny Insect: A Memoir Of The Taiping Rebellion And Its Aftermath

The structure, content, and imagery of The World of a Tiny Insect reveals a carefully crafted, fragmented narrative that skips in time and probes the relationships between trauma and memory, revealing both history and its psychic impact. Xiaofei Tian's annotated translation includes an introduction that situates The World of a Tiny Insect in Chinese history and literature and explores the relevance of the book to the workings of traumatic memory. Zhang Daye (b. 1854) is known only as the author of The World of a Tiny Insect. Xiaofei Tian is professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University. Among her recent publications is Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China."The author and narrator recounts his terrible experiences and miraculous survivals with a child's curiosity and in a vivid, straightforward way. But he also embeds what happened to him in a larger historical, philosophical, moral, and aesthetic context. 9780295993188 0295993189 209 BOOK Biography & Autobiography NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QlFHAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Daye Zhang|Xiaofei Tian
• | Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 01, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0295993189
• | ISBN-13: 9780295993188