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100	1		_aZhang, Daye, _d1854-
240	1	0	_aWeichong shijie. _lEnglish
245	1	4	_aThe world of a tiny insect : _ba memoir of the Taiping rebellion and its aftermath / _cby Zhang Daye ; translated, with an introduction, by Xiaofei Tian.
264		1	_aSeattle : _bUniversity of Washington Press, _c[2013]
264		4	_c2013
300			_a1 online resource (209 pages) : _bmap
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"From the cry of a tiny insect, one can hear the sound of a vast world. "So begins Zhang Daye's preface to The World of a Tiny Insect, his haunting memoir of war and its aftermath. In 1861, when China's devastating Taiping rebellion began, Zhang was seven years old. The Taiping rebel army occupied Shaoxing, his hometown, and for the next two years, he hid from Taiping soldiers, local bandits, and imperial troops and witnessed gruesome scenes of violence and death. He lost friends and family and nearly died himself from starvation, illness, and encounters with soldiers on rampages.Written thirty years later, The World of a Tiny Insect gives voice to this history. A rare premodern Chinese literary work depicting a child's perspective, Zhang's sophisticated text captures the macabre images, paranoia, and emotional excess that defined his wartime experience and echoed throughout his adult life. The structure, content, and imagery of The World of a Tiny Insect reveals a carefully crafted, fragmented narrative that skips in time and probes the relationships between trauma and memory, revealing both history and its psychic impact. Xiaofei Tian's annotated translation includes an introduction that situates The World of a Tiny Insect in Chinese history and literature and explores the relevance of the book to the workings of traumatic memory. Zhang Daye (b. 1854) is known only as the author of The World of a Tiny Insect. Xiaofei Tian is professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University. Among her recent publications is Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China."The author and narrator recounts his terrible experiences and miraculous survivals with a child's curiosity and in a vivid, straightforward way. But he also embeds what happened to him in a larger historical, philosophical, moral, and aesthetic context. No comparable primary source available in English does anything like this for the Taiping Rebellion." --Judith Zeitlin, University of Chicago"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
600	1	0	_aZhang, Daye, _d1854-
651		0	_aChina _xHistory _yTaiping Rebellion, 1850-1864 _vPersonal narratives.
651		0	_aChina _xHistory _y1861-1912.
651		0	_aChina _vBiography.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
700	1		_aTian, Xiaofei, _d1971-
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aZhang, Daye. _tworld of a tiny insect : a memoir of the Taiping rebellion and its aftermath. _dSeattle : University of Washington Press, [2013] _hviii, 200 pages _z9780295993188 _w(DLC) 2013035414
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3444566 _zClick to View
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