Table of Contents for

Personal Matters

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Theorizing the Personal in Modern Chinese Women's Autobiographical Practice

1.      Woman, Writer, Martyr: Qiu Jin's Life and Autobiographical Work at the end of the Qing Dynasty

2.      Mother's Love: Representing the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Early Modern China

3.      Mother-Daughter Relationships in Revolutionary Literature

4.      A Chinese Gender Morality Tale: Politics, Personal Voice, and Public Space in the Early Post-Mao Era

5.      Consumption, Shame, and the Imaginary in Contemporary Autobiographical Practice

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index