The Man Awakened from Dreams

By: Nabeel Abraham and Sally Howell and Andrew Shryock

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Synopsis: In this beautifully crafted study of one emblematic life, Harrison addresses large themes in Chinese history while conveying with great immediacy the textures and rhythms of everyday life in the countryside in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Liu Dapeng was a provincial degree-holder who never held government office. Through the story of his family, the author illustrates the decline of the countryside in relation to the cities as a result of modernization and the transformation of Confucian ideology as a result of these changes. Based on nearly 400 volumes of Liu's diary and other writings, the book illustrates what it was like to study in an academy and to be a schoolteacher, the pressures of changing family relationships, the daily grind of work in industry and agriculture, people's experience with government, and life under the Japanese occupation.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780804767460
Related ISBNs:: 9780804750684, 9780804750691
Publisher:: Stanford University Press
Date of Addition:: 05/16/17
Copyrighted By:: the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Travel
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.