Slapping The Table In Amazement

Author : Mengchu Ling
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780295742144

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Slapping the Table in Amazement by Mengchu Ling Pdf

Slapping the Table in Amazement is the unabridged English translation of the famous story collection Pai�an jingqi by Ling Mengchu (1580�1644), originally published in 1628. The forty lively stories gathered here present a broad picture of traditional Chinese society and include characters from all social levels. We learn of their joys and sorrows, their views about life and death, and their visions of the underworld and the supernatural. Ling was a connoisseur of popular literature and a seminal figure in the development of Chinese literature in the vernacular, which paved the way for the late-imperial Chinese novel. Slapping the Table in Amazement includes translations of verse and prologue stories as well as marginal and interlinear comments.

Author : Judith T. Zeitlin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780804729680

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Historian of the Strange by Judith T. Zeitlin Pdf

This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.

Author : Cheryl C. D. Hughes
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438492162

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Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity by Cheryl C. D. Hughes Pdf

Crossing Borders and Confounding Identity advances our understanding of the diversity of Chinese women's experiences and achievements, from the Han Dynasty to the present. With a particular emphasis on literature and the arts, the chapters offer insights into the work of current Chinese women artists as well as literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of women and women's issues. Taken together, they provide new perspectives on Chinese women, their lived experiences and fictional representations, across a broad spectrum of literature, theater, film, and the visual arts. Accessible to nonspecialists and general readers, this book will also be a valuable resource for faculty who teach Asian studies courses in history and in the humanities, as well as for students in interdisciplinary Asian studies courses.

Author : Maria Franca Sibau
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438469911

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Reading for the Moral by Maria Franca Sibau Pdf

Reassesses didacticism in seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular fiction and challenges the view that the late Ming was a notoriously immoral time. Reading for the Moral offers an innovative reassessment of the nature of moral representation and exemplarity in Chinese vernacular fiction. Maria Franca Sibau focuses on two little-studied story collections published at the end of the Ming dynasty, Exemplary Words for the World (Xingshi yan, 1632) and Bell in the Still Night (Qingye zhong, c. 1645). Far from being tediously moralistic tales, these stories of loyal ministers, filial children, chaste widows, and selfless friends provide a deeper understanding of the five cardinal relationships central to Confucian ethics. They explore the inherent tension between what we might call textbook morality, on the one hand, and untidy everyday life, on the other. The stories often take a critical view of mechanical notions of retribution, countering it with the logic of virtue as its own reward. Conflict between passion and duty is typically resolved in favor of duty, a duty redefined with a palpable sense of urgency. In constructing vernacular representations of moral exemplars from the recent historical past rather than from remote or fictitious antiquity, the story compilers show how these virtues are not abstract or monolithic norms, but play out within the contingencies of time and space. Maria Franca Sibau is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Emory University.

Author : Wenxin Chen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789819947096

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The Literature and Cultural Ecology of Imperial Examinations in the Ming Dynasty by Wenxin Chen Pdf

The book examines the relationship between imperial examinations and literature from the perspective of restoring the cultural ecology of imperial examinations in Ming China, breaking through the paradigm of pure literature research. This book presents an important practice in adjusting the pattern of literary research. The contents of this book include five mutually independent but supportive parts: 1) the living conditions and careers of the literary attendants; 2) the educational background and school’s consciousness of the Ming literati; 3) top candidates and Ming literature; 4) genres of imperial examination and the Ming society; 5) exam cheating cases from the perspective of politics and literature. This book will appeal to readers interested in Chinese literature and culture and the imperial examination system in ancient China.

Author : Yang Shuhui
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780472038107

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Appropriation and Representation by Yang Shuhui Pdf

Feng Menglong (1574–1646) was recognized as the most knowledgeable connoisseur of popular literature of his time. He is known today for compiling three famous collections of vernacular short stories, each containing forty stories, collectively known as Sanyan. Appropriation and Representation adapts concepts of ventriloquism and dialogism from Bakhtin and Holquist to explore Feng’s methods of selecting source materials. Shuhui Yang develops a model of development in which Feng’s approach to selecting and working with his source materials becomes clear. More broadly, Appropriation and Representation locates Feng Menglong’s Sanyan in the cultural milieu of the late Ming, including the archaist movement in literature, literati marginality and anxieties, the subversive use of folk works, and the meiren xiangcao tradition—appropriating a female identity to express male frustration. Against this background, a rationale emerges for Feng’s choice to elevate and promote the vernacular story while stepping back form an overt authorial role.

Author : Tang Lixing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351612968

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Merchants and Society in Modern China by Tang Lixing Pdf

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, merchants in China were incorporated into the bourgeoisie and constituted a vital part of the upstart capitalists. The lowermost class in ancient China’s social hierarchy has thus become a strong force of social transformation in the modern era. From the angle of the interaction between the merchant and modern society, this book examines the factors behind the rise of the merchant class in China, in terms of its cultural traits, inner structure, and business modes. First, it analyzes the features and historical standings of merchant culture which came into existence on the basis of reworking and integrating Neo-Confucianism. It argues that merchant culture pushed China’s early enlightenment movement to a new level. Then the rise of the bourgeoisie and their role in the evolution of modern Chinese society are studied thoroughly. More importantly, by examining the "golden age" of the merchant after the 1911 Revolution and its end brought by the Northern Expedition, this book studies the dilemmas faced by Chinese merchants. Finally, it probes into the reasons why it was hard for China to go beyond modern society, that is, completing the transition from commodity economy to capitalist economy. This book will deepen the understanding of China’s merchant class and modern Chinese society. Scholars and students in economics, history, sociology, and cultural studies will be attracted by it.

Author : Victor H. Mair,Zhenjun Zhang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350263314

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Ming Dynasty Tales by Victor H. Mair,Zhenjun Zhang Pdf

With commentary and annotations throughout, Ming Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader presents for the first time in English 10 key stories from China's Ming Dynasty era. Casting new light on this significant period in Chinese literary history, these tales bring Ming era China vividly to life, from its chaotic beginnings to its imperial heyday. As well as bearing witness to social change across the 100-year life of the Yuan Dynasty from 1260 to 1368, these tales tackle key themes of war and peace and Confucian values of loyalty, filiality, chastity, and righteousness.

Author : Xinjiang Rong
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004512597

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The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges between East and West by Xinjiang Rong Pdf

The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West, originally written in Chinese by Rong Xinjiang and now translated into English, provides insights into previously unresolved issues concerning the interactions among the societies, economies, religions and cultures of the “Western Regions”, and beyond, during the first millennium.

Author : Yenna Wu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684170203

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The Chinese Virago by Yenna Wu Pdf

Drawing from a broad array of literary, historical, dramatic and anecdotal sources, Yenna Wu makes a rich exploration of an unusually prominent theme in premodern Chinese prose fiction and drama: that of jealous and belligerent wives, or viragos, who dominate their husbands and abuse other women. Focusing on Chinese literary works from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, she presents many colorful perspectives on this type of aggression, reviewing early literary and historical examples of the phenomenon. Wu argues that although the various portraits of the virago often reveal the writers' insecurities about strong-willed women in general, the authors also satirize the kind of man whose behavioral patterns have been catalysts for female aggression. She also shows that, while the women in these works are to some extent male constructs designed to affirm the patriarchal system, various elements of these portraits constitute a subversive form of parody that casts a revealing light on the patriarchal hierarchy of premodern China.

Author : Kang-i Sun Chang,Stephen Owen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Chinese literature
ISBN : 0521855594

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The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature: From 1375 by Kang-i Sun Chang,Stephen Owen Pdf

Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese at Harvard University. --Book Jacket.

Author : Shulu Chen
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789811276101

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A Historical Research Of Chinese Folk Songs by Shulu Chen Pdf

This book advances the study of Chinese folk songs through theoretical innovation in literature-based folk songs and methodological innovation in multidisciplinary cross-interaction. It describes the historical development of folk songs, makes an in-depth study of the intersection and integration of folk songs with other literature and art, as well as the relationship with merchants, folk customs and regional culture, and analyses the literature of folk songs in previous dynasties. It is not only significant for the preservation of cultural heritage, but also to the promotion of folk song research and related fields. This book is applicable to scholars and researchers who have in-depth research on Chinese folk songs.

Author : Patrick Hanan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0674125657

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The Chinese Vernacular Story by Patrick Hanan Pdf

Author : Xi Xiang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000834567

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A Brief History of the Chinese Language VIII by Xi Xiang Pdf

As the final volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the Western and Japanese influence on the lexicon of Modern Chinese, lexical developments in synonyms, idioms and proverbs in modern times, and lexical developments in contemporary times. This volume first introduces the influence of foreign cultures on the modern Chinese lexicon with an emphasis on loanwords from Japanese and Indo-European languages. It then discusses the synonyms, idioms, and proverbs of Modern Chinese, elucidating their evolution, sources, and composition. The final part centers on the development of the Chinese lexicon after the May Fourth Movement in 1919, marking the beginning of the contemporary phase of the Chinese language. The author analyzes trends and types of neologisms and loanwords and analyzes the blend of Mandarin and dialect words and the necessity of lexical standardization. Illustrated with abundant examples, this comprehensive groundwork on Chinese lexical history will be a must-read for scholars and students studying Modern Chinese language, linguistics, and especially for beginning learners of modern and contemporary Chinese lexicon.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295801285

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Stories Old and New by Anonim Pdf

Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong’s Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best of Feng’s three such collections and was a pivotal work in the development of vernacular fiction. The stories are valuable as examples of early fiction and for their detailed depiction of daily life among a broad range of social classes. The stories are populated by scholars and courtesans, spirits and ghosts, Buddhist monks and nuns, pirates and emperors, and officials both virtuous and corrupt. The streets and abodes of late-Ming China come alive in Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang’s smooth and colorful translation of these entertaining tales. Stories Old and New has long been popular in China and has been published there in numerous editions. Although some of the stories have appeared in English translations in journals and anthologies, they have not previously been presented sequentially in thematic pairs as arranged by Feng Menglong. This unabridged translation, illustrated with a selection of woodcuts from the original Ming dynasty edition and including Feng’s interlinear notes and marginal comments, as well as all of the verse woven throughout the text, allows the modern reader to experience the text as did its first audience nearly four centuries ago. For other titles in the collection go to http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/ming.html