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Author Stapleton, Kristin, 1963- author.

Title Fact in fiction : 1920s China and Ba Jin's Family / Kristin Stapleton.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 280 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Ba Jin's fiction and twentieth-century Chinese history -- Mingfeng : the life of a Chinese slave girl -- The patriarch : Chengdu's gentry -- Juexin's city : the Chengdu economy -- Sedan-chair bearers, beggars, actors, and prostitutes : the worlds of the urban poor -- Students, soldiers, and warlords : protest and warfare in the city -- Qin : Chengdu and the "new woman" -- Juehui : revolution, reform, and development in Chengdu -- Epilogue : family and city in China's twentieth-century revolutions.
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Summary "Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin's influential novel Family, but few realize how much he shaped his depiction of 1920s China to suit his story and his politics. In Fact in Fiction, Kristin Stapleton puts Ba Jin's bestseller into full historical context, both to illustrate how it successfully portrays human experiences during the 1920s and to reveal its historical distortions. Stapleton's attention to historical evidence and clear prose that directly addresses themes and characters from Family create a book that scholars, students, and general readers will enjoy. She focuses on Chengdu, China, Ba Jin's birthplace and the setting for Family, which was also a cultural and political center of western China. The city's richly preserved archives allow Stapleton to create an intimate portrait of a city that seemed far from the center of national politics of the day but clearly felt the forces of--and contributed to--the turbulent stream of Chinese history."--Publisher's description.
Subject Ba, Jin, 1904-2005. Jia.
Jia (Ba, Jin) (OCoLC)fst01914505
Chengdu (China) -- History -- 20th century.
China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949.
Historical fiction, Chinese -- History and criticism.
Literature and history -- China -- History -- 20th century.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Historical fiction, Chinese. (OCoLC)fst00958020
Literature and history. (OCoLC)fst01000077
China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
China -- Chengdu. (OCoLC)fst01212121
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Stapleton, Kristin, 1963- Fact in fiction. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016 9780804798693 (DLC) 2016010388
ISBN 9780804799737 (electronic bk.)
0804799733 (electronic bk.)
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