000714731 000__ 03971cam\a2200469\i\4500 000714731 001__ 714731 000714731 005__ 20210515101800.0 000714731 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000714731 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000714731 008__ 130910t20132013waub\\\\ob\\\\001\0deng\d 000714731 020__ $$z9780295993171$$qhardcover 000714731 020__ $$z9780295993188$$qpaperback 000714731 020__ $$a9780295804910$$qelectronic book 000714731 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10822082 000714731 035__ $$a(OCoLC)874133280 000714731 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cCaPaEBR 000714731 0411_ $$aeng$$hchi 000714731 043__ $$aa-cc--- 000714731 05014 $$aDS759.35$$b.Z53613 2013eb 000714731 08204 $$a951/.034092$$223 000714731 1001_ $$aZhang, Daye,$$d1854- 000714731 24010 $$aWeichong shijie.$$lEnglish 000714731 24514 $$aThe world of a tiny insect$$h[electronic resource] :$$ba memoir of the Taiping rebellion and its aftermath /$$cby Zhang Daye ; translated, with an introduction, by Xiaofei Tian. 000714731 264_1 $$aSeattle :$$bUniversity of Washington Press,$$c[2013] 000714731 264_4 $$c©2013 000714731 300__ $$a1 online resource (209 pages) :$$bmap 000714731 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000714731 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000714731 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000714731 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000714731 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000714731 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. 000714731 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000714731 60010 $$aZhang, Daye,$$d1854- 000714731 651_0 $$aChina$$xHistory$$yTaiping Rebellion, 1850-1864$$vPersonal narratives. 000714731 651_0 $$aChina$$xHistory$$y1861-1912. 000714731 651_0 $$aChina$$vBiography. 000714731 7001_ $$aTian, Xiaofei,$$d1971- 000714731 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aZhang, Daye.$$tworld of a tiny insect : a memoir of the Taiping rebellion and its aftermath.$$dSeattle : University of Washington Press, [2013]$$z9780295993188$$w(DLC) 2013035414 000714731 852__ $$bebk 000714731 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/usiricelib/Doc?id=10822082$$zOnline Access 000714731 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:714731$$pGLOBAL_SET 000714731 980__ $$aEBOOK 000714731 980__ $$aBIB 000714731 982__ $$aEbook 000714731 983__ $$aOnline