The Happy Hsiungs: Performing China and the Struggle for Modernity (Ras China in Shanghai)

225 Pages·2014·2.786 MB·English

by  Diana Yeh

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The Happy Hsiungs
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RAS China in Shanghai series
In 1857 a small group of British and Americans seeking intellectual
engagement in a city dedicated to commerce established the Shanghai
Literary and Scientific Society. Within a year the organisation was granted
affiliation with the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in
London and the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society was
born. The Society was re-convened in Shanghai in 2007.
The RAS China in Shanghai series of China Monographs, published in
association with Hong Kong University Press, is designed to reflect the
vibrancy as well as the wide research interests and contacts of the Society
and to provide a forum for its members and associates to publish their
research interests.
Series Editor: Paul French
Other titles in the RAS China in Shanghai series:
Knowledge Is Pleasure: Florence Ayscough in Shanghai by Lindsay Shen
Lao She in London by Anne Witchard
Mu Shiying: China’s Lost Modernist, New Translations and an Appreciation
by Andrew David Field
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The Happy Hsiungs
Performing China and the Struggle
for Modernity
Diana Yeh
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For Wen Tsai and Mei Tak Yeh
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Contents
Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements xi
Note on Transliteration xiii
Prelude 1
Chapter 1 Adrift in New China: Learning, Love and Labour 15
Chapter 2 ‘Try Something Different. Something Really 29
Chinese’
Chapter 3 ‘The Greatest Success’: The Rise to Global Fame 47
Chapter 4 China Fashion and the Politics of Success 63
Chapter 5 The Kaleidoscope of China: Authenticity, 75
Orientalism and Discontents
Chapter 6 The End to Old Cathay? 91
Chapter 7 ‘Looking Like an English Household’: 105
Performing Class, Family and Home
Chapter 8 Goddess, Housewife, Writer 121
Chapter 9 Into the Shadows 135
Chapter 10 Global and Contemporary Revivals 145
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Contents
Afterword 153
Glossary of Names 157
Notes 159
Selected Bibliography 175
Index 183
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Illustrations
1. Shih-I Hsiung and Dymia Hsiung, c. 1935–36. Photo:
Chidnoff.
2. Dymia’s parents, the Tsais, 1915. Courtesy of Deh-Ta Hsiung.
3. Shih-I, Dymia and their first child Delan, c. 1924. Courtesy of
Deh-Ta Hsiung.
4. Dymia with Dehai, Delan, Dewei, Deh-Ta and Deni, c.
1934–35. Courtesy of Deh-Ta Hsiung.
5. The front cover of Lady Precious Stream, published by
Methuen, 1934, showing Xu Beihong’s ‘His Excellency the
Prime Minister steals to the garden seeking for a moment of
tranquility’.
6. Louise Hampton as Madame Wang in Lady Precious Stream,
c. 1935. Courtesy of the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of
Cinema and Popular Culture, University of Exeter.
7. Programme for Lady Precious Stream at the Little Theatre,
1934. Courtesy of Deh-I Hsiung.
8. Shih-I Hsiung with Morris Gest, George Bernard Shaw and
Wendy Hiller, at the Malvern Festival in England, 9 August
1936. Copyright: Associated Press.
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