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Author : George A. Hayden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684172139
Provides full annotated translations of three previously untranslated Yuan-Ming Judge Pao courtroom dramas.
Author : George A. Hayden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015002342320
Preliminary Material --Courtroom Plays of the Yuan and Ming Periods --The Legend of Judge Pao from the Beginnings through Yuan-Ming Drama --Ch'en-Chou T'iao Mi --P'en-Erh Kuei --Hou-t'ing Hua /Cheng T'ing-yü --Courtroom Plays (Tsa-Chü) --Courtroom Plays in Yuan and Early-Ming Accounts --Late-Ming Anthologies in Which Courtroom Plays Appear --Notes --Bibliography --Glossary --Index --Harvard East Asian Monographs.
Author : Ying Zhu,Michael Keane,Ruoyun Bai
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622099401
This collection of essays brings together the first comprehensive study of TV drama in China. Examining in depth the production, distribution and consumption of TV drama, the international team of experts demonstrate why it remains the pre-eminent media form in China. The examples are diverse, highlighting the complexity of producing narrative content in a rapidly changing political and social environment. Genres examined include the revisionist Qing drama, historical and contemporary domestic dramas, anti-corruption dramas, "pink" dramas, Red Classics, stories from the Diaspora, and sit-coms. In addition to genres, the collection explores industry dynamics: how TV dramas are marketed and consumed on DVD, and China's aspirations to export its television drama rights. The book provides an international and cross-cultural perspective with chapters on Taiwanese TV drama in China, the impact of South Korean drama, and trans-border production between the Mainland and Hong Kong.
Author : Sabrina Yuan Hao
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004682511
In the post-war mid-century Robert van Gulik produced a series of stories set in Imperial China and featuring a Chinese Judge: Judge Dee. This book examines the author’s unprecedented effort in hybridising two heterogenous crime writing traditions – traditional Chinese gong’an (court-case) fiction and its Anglo-American counterpart – bringing to light how his fiction draws elements from these two traditions for plots, narrative features, visual images, and gender representation. Relying on research on various sources and literary traditions, it provides illumination of the historical contexts, centring on the cultural interaction and connectedness that occurred during the multidirectional global flows of the Judge Dee texts in both western and Chinese markets. This study contributes to current scholarship on crime fiction by questioning its predominantly Eurocentric focus and the divisive post-colonial approach often adopted in accessing works concerning foreign peoples and cultures.
Author : Fedwa Malti-Douglas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000557749
From rulers to uninvited guests, from women to thieves, from dreams to names, from blindness to torture - in a series of ground-breaking studies, Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam explores the multi-layered and complex textual universe of medieval Islam. The power of the ruler sits alongside the power of the trickster, as games of detection and verbal erudition are displayed for the edification of the reader. Humour is not lacking either as male and female characters indulge in various forms of wit that redefine and recast the sacred. For much of this world, the body reigns supreme: not only in illness and miracle cures but in displays of transgression and torture. Covering the range of literature from sacred text to history, biography and anecdote, this book provides a stimulating analysis of the world of medieval Islamic mentalités.
Author : Shiao-Ling Yu
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0773487808
Covering the two major dramatic forms in China, this volume includes a translation of two traditional operas and five spoken plays. These works are among the most controversial plays produced in the post-Mao era, and collectively represent a new trend which could transform Chinese drama.
Author : Dale R. Johnson
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780892640409
Part One of Yuarn Music Dramas presents a detailed analysis of form and structure in Yuarn music drama, with sections on the act, the suite, the aria, the verse, metrics of repeated graph patterns, parallelism, and the matching of suite and mode. [vii] Part Two presents the first catalogue of arias of its kind to be published in a language other than Chinese. It is a compilation of all of the arias in the northern dramatic style that are found in the 162 titles contained in the Yuarn-chyuu shyuann and the Yuarn-chyuu shyuaan waih-bian. It is modeled on several such catalogues compiled over the past six hundred years. [99]
Author : Robert E. Hegel
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780295800158
The little-examined genre of legal case narratives is represented in this fascinating volume, the first collection translated into English of criminal cases - most involving homicide - from late imperial China. These true stories of crimes of passion, family conflict, neighborhood feuds, gang violence, and sedition are a treasure trove of information about social relations and legal procedure. Each narrative describes circumstances leading up to a crime and its discovery, the appearance of the crime scene and the body, the apparent cause of death, speculation about motives and premeditation, and whether self-defense was involved. Detailed testimony is included from the accused and from witnesses, family members, and neighbors, as well as summaries and opinions from local magistrates, their coroners, and other officials higher up the chain of judicial review. Officials explain which law in the Qing dynasty legal code was violated, which corresponding punishment was appropriate, and whether the sentence was eligible for reduction. These records began as reports from magistrates on homicide cases within their jurisdiction that were required by law to be tried first at the county level, then reviewed by judicial officials at the prefectural, provincial, and national levels, with each administrator adding his own observations to the file. Each case was decided finally in Beijing, in the name of the emperor if not by the monarch himself, before sentences could be carried out and the records permanently filed. All of the cases translated here are from the Qing imperial copies, most of which are now housed in the First Historical Archives, Beijing.
Author : Wilt Idema,Lloyd Haft
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780892641239
Selected for Choice's list of Outstanding Academic Books for 1997. A comprehensive overview of China's 3,000 years of literary history, from its beginnings to the present day. After an introductory section discussing the concept of literature and other features of traditional Chinese society crucial to understanding its writings, the second part is broken into five major time periods (earliest times to 100 c.e.; 100-1000; 1000-1875; 1875-1915; and 1915 to the present) corresponding to changes in book production. The development of the major literary genres is traced in each of these periods. The reference section in the cloth edition includes an annotated bibliography of more than 120 pages; the paper edition has a shorter bibliography and is intended for classroom use.
Author : Robert E. Hegel,Katherine N. Carlitz
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780295997544
In this fascinating, multidisciplinary volume, scholars of Chinese history, law, literature, and religions explore the intersections of legal practice with writing in many different social contexts. They consider the overlapping concerns of legal culture and the arts of crafting persuasive texts in a range of documents including crime reports, legislation, novels, prayers, and law suits. Their focus is the late Ming and Qing periods (c. 1550-1911); their documents range from plaints filed at the local level by commoners, through various texts produced by the well-to-do, to the legal opinions penned by China's emperors. Writing and Law in Late Imperial China explores works of crime-case fiction, judicial handbooks for magistrates and legal secretaries, popular attitudes toward clergy and merchants as reflected in legal plaints, and the belief in a parallel, otherworldly judicial system that supports earthly justice.
Author : Victor H. Mair
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 1369 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231109857
Comprehensive yet portable, this account of the development of Chinese literature from the very beginning up to the present brings the riches of this august literary tradition into focus for the general reader. Organized chronologically with thematic chapters interspersed, the fifty-five original chapters by leading specialists cover all genres and periods of poetry, prose, fiction, and drama, with a special focus on such subjects as popular culture, the impact of religion upon literature, the role of women, and relationships with non-Sinitic languages and peoples.
Author : Paul R. Katz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134067879
This book examines the integral role of religious beliefs and practices in Chinese legal culture.
Author : Natalio Fernández Marcos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004114432
This volume, based on recently published Old Latin material, provides fascinating information and discussion on the textual pluralism attested by the Hebrew texts and versions of the books of Kings, an intriguing page in the history of the biblical texts.
Author : Frank Dikötter,Ian Brown
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501721267
Prisons are on the increase from the United States to China, as ever-larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now span the world, we know little about their history in global perspective. Rather than interpreting the prison's proliferation as the predictable result of globalization, Cultures of Confinement underlines the fact that the prison was never simply imposed by colonial powers or copied by elites eager to emulate the West, but was reinvented and transformed by a host of local factors, its success being dependent on its very flexibility. Complex cultural negotiations took place in encounters between different parts of the world, and rather than assigning a passive role to Latin America, Asia, and Africa, the authors of this book point out the acts of resistance or appropriation that altered the social practices associated with confinement. The prison, in short, was understood in culturally specific ways and reinvented in a variety of local contexts examined here for the first time in global perspective.
Author : Jeffrey C. Kinkley
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0804739765
This is a full-length study of Chinese crime fiction in all eras: ancient, modern, and contemporary. It is also the first book to apply legal scholars law and literature inquiry to the rich field of Chinese legal and literary culture.
