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Title Chinese concepts of privacy / edited by Bonnie S. McDougall & Anders Hansson
Published Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 241 pages) : illustrations
Series Sinica Leidensia ; v. 55
Sinica Leidensia ; v. 55
Contents Particulars and Universals: Studies on Chinese Privacy / Bonnie S. McDougall -- Experiencing Privacy -- Solitude, Silence and Concealment: Boundaries of the Social Body in Ming Dynasty China / Charlotte Furth -- Privacy in Dream of the Red Chamber / Cathy Silber -- Inscribing Privacy -- Studying the Private Sphere of the Ancient Chinese Nobility through the Inscriptions on Bronze Ritual Vessels / Maria Khayutina -- Privacy and Letter Writing in Han and Six Dynasties China / David Pattinson -- Negotiating Privacy -- The Origins of Modern Chinese Concepts of Privacy: Notes on Social Structure and Moral Discourse / Peter Zarrow -- Functions and Values of Privacy in the Correspondence between Lu Xun and Xu Guangping, 1925-1929 / Bonnie S. McDougall -- Exposing Privacy -- Privacy and its Ill Effects in Post-Mao Urban Fiction / Robin Visser -- The Extrication of Memory in Tie Ning's Woman Showering: Privacy and the Trap of History / Chen Xiaoming -- Reflections on Privacy in China / Stephan Feuchtwang
Summary Examines the Chinese approach to the subject of privacy, showing that concepts of privacy have been part of discourse in China from the earliest recorded times to the present, with varying contents, mechanisms, functions and values at different times and among different groups of people
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Privacy -- China -- History
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Interpersonal Relations.
Manners and customs
Privacy
Privatsphäre
Sozialer Wandel
Geschichte
Kongress
SUBJECT China -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024186
Subject China
China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author McDougall, Bonnie S., 1941-
Hansson, Anders, 1944-
ISBN 141750224X
9781417502240
9047401700
9789047401704
9789004127661
9004127666
1280466960
9781280466960
9786610466962
6610466963