Song Dynasty Tales A Guided Reader

Author : Zhang Zhenjun,Wang Jing
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789813143296

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Song Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader by Zhang Zhenjun,Wang Jing Pdf

Together with the noted Tang dynasty tales, Song dynasty tales have long been highly valued and widely read in the Chinese world. As the first English translations of a selected collection of 12 Song dynasty tales, this book opens a window into the world of literature, culture, and the colorful lives of the royal house and common people in the 10th- to 13th-centuries. In addition to the translation and meticulous annotations, it offers a general introduction as well as commentaries on each tale.

Author : William H. Nienhauser
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789814719537

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Tang Dynasty Tales by William H. Nienhauser Pdf

"This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator's notes for these twelve tales provide insights into many aspects of Tang material culture and medieval thought, including Buddhism and Daoism. In addition to meticulously annotated translations, the book offers original texts (with some textual notes), and commentaries in the form of translator's notes, thereby joining the first volume of Tang tales as the only collections that introduce students to Tang tales while also challenging specialists interested in the field."--

Author : Victor H. Mair,Zhenjun Zhang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : William H Nienhauser, Jr.
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789814719544

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Tang Dynasty Tales by William H Nienhauser, Jr. Pdf

' This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator''s notes for these twelve tales provide insights into many aspects of Tang material culture and medieval thought, including Buddhism and Daoism. In addition to meticulously annotated translations, the book offers original texts (with some textual notes), and commentaries in the form of translator''s notes, thereby joining the first volume of Tang tales as the only collections that introduce students to Tang tales while also challenging specialists interested in the field. Contents:"The Tale of the Supernatural Marriage at Dongting" 洞庭靈姻傳 (Li Chaowei 李朝威)"Zhang Lao" 張老 (Li Liang 李諒)"Yin Tianxiang" 殷天祥 (Shen Fen 沈汾)"Xue Yi" 薛義 (Dai Fu 戴孚)"An Account of Feng Yan" 馮燕傳 (Shen Yazhi 沈亞之)"A Record of Dream of Qin" 秦夢記 (Shen Yazhi 沈亞之)"The Biography of Ge Hua, Marquis of Xiapi" 下邳候革華傳 (Anonymous)"An Account of Mid-rivers" 河間傳 (Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元)"Scholar Cui" 崔書生 (Niu Sengru 牛僧孺)"Third Lady of Plank Bridge Inn" 板橋三娘子 (Xue Yusi 薛漁思)"An Account of Xie Xiao''e" 謝小娥傳 (Li Gongzuo 李公左)"Monk Attached to Emptiness" 僧契虛 (Zhang Du 張讀) Readership: Academics and students interested in medieval Chinese literature; general public interested in early fiction. Key Features:Expands the corpus of Tang tales by including several previously untranslated works from the Daoist and Buddhist traditionsIncludes examples of the well-known pseudo-biographies by Liu Zongyuan and a follower of Han YuMany aspects of Tang culture are explained in the notesKeywords:Tang Tales;Traditional Fiction;Chinese Narratives;Tang Culture;Chuanqi;Tang Literature'

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814466790

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Tang Dynasty Tales by Anonim Pdf

Author : William H. Nienhauser, Jr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9814719528

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Tang Dynasty Tales by William H. Nienhauser, Jr Pdf

Author : Victor H. Mair,Zhenjun Zhang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350263307

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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 : Zhenjun Zhang,Victor H Mair
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789811216527

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Anthology Of Tang And Song Tales: The Tang Song Chuanqi Ji Of Lu Xun by Zhenjun Zhang,Victor H Mair Pdf

This volume is the first complete English rendition of the 45 famous tales in the monumental anthology masterfully selected and edited by Lu Xun (1881-1936). It is the most distinctive, authoritative, and influential chuanqi collection thus far, and many of the pieces are rendered for the first time. This is an important contribution to the field of Chinese studies in the English-speaking world.

Author : Victor H. Mair,Zhenjun Zhang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350263291

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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 : Victor H. Mair,Zhenjun Zhang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781350337220

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Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament by Victor H. Mair,Zhenjun Zhang Pdf

Bathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions of ancient peoples, poems of mourning and texts of lament stand out in classical Chinese literature as brilliant and unique. Composed and celebrated over 3000 years, they are central to the Chinese literary tradition but have been largely unknown to English readers. Including over 100 major pieces by leading literary figures from 800 BCE – 1800, this is the first English anthology of classic Chinese poems of mourning and texts of sacrificial offering. With annotated translations by leading scholars and reading guides accompanying each piece, this book reveals a powerful literary heritage to students and serious readers of Chinese literature, history and civilization.

Author : Olivia Milburn
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295748764

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The Empress in the Pepper Chamber by Olivia Milburn Pdf

Zhao Feiyan (45–1 BCE), the second empress appointed by Emperor Cheng of the Han dynasty (207 BCE–220 CE), was born in slavery and trained in the performing arts, a background that made her appointment as empress highly controversial. Subsequent persecution by her political enemies eventually led to her being forced to commit suicide. After her death, her reputation was marred by accusations of vicious scheming, murder of other consorts and their offspring, and relentless promiscuity, punctuated by bouts of extravagant shopping. This first book-length study of Zhao Feiyan and her literary legacy includes a complete translation of The Scandalous Tale of Zhao Feiyan (Zhao Feiyan waizhuan), a Tang dynasty (618–907 CE) erotic novella that describes in great detail the decadent lifestyle enjoyed by imperial favorites in the harem of Emperor Cheng. This landmark text was crucial for establishing writings about palace women as the accepted forum for discussing sexual matters, including fetishism, obsession, jealousy, incompatibility in marriage, and so on. Using historical documentation, Olivia Milburn reconstructs the evolution of Zhao Feiyan’s story and illuminates the broader context of palace life for women and the novella’s social influence.

Author : Robert Ford Campany
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780824853518

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A Garden of Marvels by Robert Ford Campany Pdf

Between 300 and 600 C.E., Chinese writers compiled thousands of accounts of the strange and the extraordinary. Some described weird spirits, customs, and flora and fauna in distant lands. Some depicted individuals of unusual spiritual or moral achievement. But most told of ordinary people’s encounters with ghosts, demons, or gods; sojourns in the land of the dead; eerily significant dreams; and uncannily accurate premonitions. The selection of such stories presented here provides an alluring introduction to early medieval Chinese storytelling and opens a doorway to the enchanted world of thought, culture, and religious belief of that era. Known as zhiguai, or “accounts of anomalies,” they convey a great deal about how people saw the cosmos and their place in it. The tales were circulated because they were entertaining but also because their compilers meant to document the mysterious workings of spirits, the wonders of exotic places, and the nature of the afterlife. A collection of more than two hundred tales, A Garden of Marvels offers an authoritative yet accessible introduction to zhiguai writings, particularly those never before translated or adequately researched. This volume will likely find its way to bedside tables as well as into classrooms and libraries, just as collections of zhiguai did in early medieval times.

Author : Alexei Kamran Ditter,Jessey Jiun-Chyi Choo,Sarah M. Allen
Publisher : Hackett Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Chinese fiction
ISBN : 1624666302

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Tales from Tang Dynasty China by Alexei Kamran Ditter,Jessey Jiun-Chyi Choo,Sarah M. Allen Pdf

Compiled during the Song dynasty (960-1279) at the behest of Emperor Taizong, the Taiping Guangji anthologized thousands of pages of unofficial histories, accounts, and minor stories from the Tang dynasty (618-907). The twenty-two tales translated in this volume, many appearing for the first time in English, reveal the dynamism and diversity of society in Tang China. A lengthy Introduction as well as introductions to each selection further illuminate the social and historical contexts within which these narratives unfold. This collection offers a wealth of information for anyone interested in medieval Chinese history, religion, or everyday life.

Author : Zhen Yuan,Xianyi Yang,Gladys Yang
Publisher : Foreign Languages Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 7119020986

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Selected Chinese Short Stories of the Tang and Song Dynasties by Zhen Yuan,Xianyi Yang,Gladys Yang Pdf

Author : Zong-qi Cai,Jie Cui,Liu Yucai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780231554787

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How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese by Zong-qi Cai,Jie Cui,Liu Yucai Pdf

This book is at once a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and an innovative textbook for the study of classical Chinese. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Prose: A Guided Anthology, designed for Chinese-language learners. How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese presents more than forty prose works, either excerpts or in full, from antiquity through the Qing dynasty. While teaching readers how to appreciate the rich tradition of Chinese prose in its original form, the book uses these texts to introduce classical Chinese to advanced learners, helping them develop reading comprehension and vocabulary. It offers a systematic guide to classical Chinese grammar and abundant notes on vocabulary, and features an extensive network of notes, exercises, and cross-references. The book includes modern translations of the forty prose works in simplified Chinese, presented alongside the original texts in traditional Chinese. It also includes expert commentaries on each text’s distinctive aesthetic qualities as well as historical and cultural contexts. The book comprises thirty-eight lessons within eight units, organized chronologically to reflect the emergence of major prose genres. It is a major contribution to the teaching and study of classical Chinese language and literature. Audio recordings of all forty texts are available online free of charge.