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The Origins of Prejudice: The Malintegration of Subei in Late Imperial China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Antonia Finnane
Antonia Finnane
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University of Melbourne
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The convention for introducing biography in the Chinese textual tradition is to identify the subject not only by his name but also by his native place. The classic formula used for this purpose is set out in the preface to “The True Story of Ah Q,” in which Lu Xun remarks that “when writing biography, it is the usual practice to begin ‘so-and-so, from such-and-such place’ ” (Lu 1959 [1921]: 93). This formula was adopted in official documents, popular stories, obituaries and tomb epitaphs as well as in formal biographies or biographical notices. There were variations in its form, in which the person was identified as being “native of this place, living in that place” or “originally of this place, now of that place.” But in any event, a man was, and still is, normally identified by both his personal name and the name of his place of origin, just as a woman was usually identified by the names of her father and her husband. The problem for Lu Xun as fictional biographer was that Ah Q's name was a matter of debate and his place of origin unknown: He floated unmoored through Chinese society.

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , April 1993 , pp. 211 - 238
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1993

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