Love-Letters and Privacy in Modern China The

This book opens up three new topics in modern Chinese literary history: the intimate lives of modern China's most famous literary couple, Lu Xun and Xu Guangping; real and imagined love-letters in modern Chinese literature; and the contents, functions, and values of privacy held by one couple in twentieth-century China as shown by a comparison between the edited and unedited versions of their letters.

Acknowledgements

ix

Dramatis Personae

xi

Abbreviations

xiii

Introduction

1

(12)

Part I: Intimate Lives

Xu Guangping `in the Front Row': 1898--1925

13

(5)

Lu Xun's `Life without Love': 1881--1925

18

(10)

Courtship: March 1925--August 1926

28

(17)

Separation: September 1926--January 1927

45

(10)

Living Together: January 1927--June 1929

55

(9)

Birth and Death: 1929--68

64

(19)

Part II: Real and Imagined Letters

Traditional Chinese and Western Letters

83

(7)

Modern Chinese Letters and Epistolary Fiction

90

(4)

The Making of Letters between Two

94

(9)

Frequency, Appearance, and Terms of Address

103

(9)

Defining Identities, Testing Roles

112

(25)

Part III: Searching for Privacy

Mapping Personal Space

137

(4)

Sex and Sexual Relationships

141

(11)

Bodies, Bodily Functions and Activities, and Hygiene

152

(6)

Domestic Life and Habits

158

(2)

Family Matters

160

(5)

Friends and Enemies

165

(6)

Political Opinions, Observations, and Activities

171

(5)

Thoughts and Emotions

176

(6)

Rumour and Gossip

182

(5)

Secrecy, Seclusion, and Private/Selfish Interests

187

(8)

Personal Space as Privacy

195

(12)

Part IV: Conclusion

Revealing to Conceal: Letters between Two and the Original Correspondence

207

(3)

Notes

210

(69)

References

279

(20)

Index

299

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Love-Letters and Privacy in Modern China The Intimate Lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping

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