Tang Dynasty Stories

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Beijing : Chinese Literature Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Chines fiction Tʻang dynasty, 618-907
ISBN : UCSC:32106009307551

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Tang Dynasty Stories by Anonim Pdf

"These stories written during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) form a notable part of early Chinese fiction. Indeed, in importance they are comparable to Tang poetry. The prosperity of the Tang Dynasty with its rapid development of agriculture, handicrafts and commerce supplied a rich material basis for the complex social life which was the background to these stories. Since the authors were consciously writing fiction, they produced something more imaginative than the earlier Chinese tales of the supernatural or anecdotes of famous men. The middle period of the Tang Dynasty - the eighth century and early nineth century - was the hay-day of this form of literature. This collection includes some of the best stories of this period." -- Back cover.

Author : William H. Nienhauser
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Jiji Shen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000*
Category : Chinese fiction
ISBN : 7119026917

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Selected Tang dynasty stories by Jiji Shen Pdf

Author : Charles D. Benn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0195176650

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China's Golden Age by Charles D. Benn Pdf

In this fascinating and detailed profile, Benn paints a vivid picture of life in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China. 40 line illustrations.

Author : Xianyi Yang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : China
ISBN : UCSC:32106010984992

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The Dragon King's Daughter by Xianyi Yang Pdf

Author : Sarah M. Allen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170791

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Shifting Stories by Sarah M. Allen Pdf

Shifting Stories explores the tale literature of eighth- and ninth-century China to show how the written tales we have today grew out of a fluid culture of hearsay that circulated within elite society. Sarah M. Allen focuses on two main types of tales, those based in gossip about recognizable public figures and those developed out of lore concerning the occult. She demonstrates how writers borrowed and adapted stories and plots already in circulation and how they transformed them—in some instances into unique and artfully wrought tales. For most readers of that era, tales remained open texts, subject to revision by many hands over the course of transmission, unconstrained by considerations of textual integrity or authorship. Only in the mid- to late-ninth century did some readers and editors come to see the particular wording and authorship of a tale as important, a shift that ultimately led to the formation of the Tang tale canon as it is envisioned today.

Author : Zhang Zhenjun,Wang Jing
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Mark Edward Lewis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674033061

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China’s Cosmopolitan Empire by Mark Edward Lewis Pdf

The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced its finest lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu. The Chinese engaged in extensive trade on sea and land. Merchants from Inner Asia settled in the capital, while Chinese entrepreneurs set off for the wider world, the beginning of a global diaspora. The emergence of an economically and culturally dominant south that was controlled from a northern capital set a pattern for the rest of Chinese imperial history. Poems celebrated the glories of the capital, meditated on individual loneliness in its midst, and described heroic young men and beautiful women who filled city streets and bars. Despite the romantic aura attached to the Tang, it was not a time of unending peace. In 756, General An Lushan led a revolt that shook the country to its core, weakening the government to such a degree that by the early tenth century, regional warlordism gripped many areas, heralding the decline of the Great Tang.

Author : Alexei Ditter,Jessey Choo,Sarah Allen
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624666322

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Tales from Tang Dynasty China by Alexei Ditter,Jessey Choo,Sarah 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 : JIJI. SHEN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 7119097652

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Selected Tang Dynasty Stories by JIJI. SHEN Pdf

Author : Alexei Kamran Ditter,Jessey Jiun-Chyi Choo,Sarah M. Allen
Publisher : Hackett Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Chinese fiction
ISBN : 1624666310

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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 : Heather Millar
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0761400745

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China's Tang Dynasty by Heather Millar Pdf

Describes how China entered an age of prosperity, conquest, justice and artistic and literary distinction during the three-hundred-year rule of the Tang dynasty.

Author : William H Nienhauser, Jr.
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Mark Edward Lewis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674054196

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China’s Cosmopolitan Empire by Mark Edward Lewis Pdf

The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced its finest lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu. The Chinese engaged in extensive trade on sea and land. Merchants from Inner Asia settled in the capital, while Chinese entrepreneurs set off for the wider world, the beginning of a global diaspora. The emergence of an economically and culturally dominant south that was controlled from a northern capital set a pattern for the rest of Chinese imperial history. Poems celebrated the glories of the capital, meditated on individual loneliness in its midst, and described heroic young men and beautiful women who filled city streets and bars. Despite the romantic aura attached to the Tang, it was not a time of unending peace. In 756, General An Lushan led a revolt that shook the country to its core, weakening the government to such a degree that by the early tenth century, regional warlordism gripped many areas, heralding the decline of the Great Tang.

Author : William H. Nienhauser, Jr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9814719528

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Tang Dynasty Tales by William H. Nienhauser, Jr Pdf