Yuan Mei

Author : Paolo Santangelo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004216280

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Zibuyu, “What The Master Would Not Discuss”, according to Yuan Mei (1716 - 1798): A Collection of Supernatural Stories (2 vols) by Paolo Santangelo Pdf

Although the preface says that the tales in this collection of supernatural stories should not be taken seriously and just aim to dispel boredom, Zibuyu is a work with different reading levels, which allows to uncover several deep trends, taboos and fantasies of late imperial intellectual circles. Disgust, surprise and laughter are constantly evoked, by continually attracting and repulsing the reader. Yuan Mei’s approach guides the reader to an adventure in the dangerous recesses of the self. It is a sort of allegoric fantastic reflection on the relative and polyphonic essence of human beings, the multiplicity of selves from psychological perception, and a challenge to the traditional biographical and historical perspective for the unreliability of destiny. Dreams, madness, delusions and other extreme cognitive and affective conditions, abnormal events, gods and spirits, and the dark world of death lead to a reversal of perspective and destroy the Apollonian vision of the social-centered Confucian orthodoxy. With introduction, translation and comments.

Author : The Arthur Waley Estate,Arthur Waley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781135652319

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Yuan Mei by The Arthur Waley Estate,Arthur Waley Pdf

First published in 1956. Arthur Waley here presents an engrossing account of the works and life of Yuan Mei (1716-1797), the best-known poet of his time. Gaiety is the keynote of his works and the poet was a friend of the Manchu official with whom Commodore Anson had dramatic dealings at Canton in 1743. Yuan Mei gives an account (not previously translated) of Anson's interview with the Manchu authorities. The book contains many translations of Yuan Mei's verse and prose.

Author : J. D. Schmidt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136862250

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Harmony Garden by J. D. Schmidt Pdf

This is the first complete study of China's most popular eighteenth-century poet in any Western language. The work consists of a detailed biography, a study of Yuan's revolutionary reinterpretation of Chinese literary theory, and an analysis of his many contributions to the more original genres of Qing-dynasty (1644-1911) poetry such as narrative, historical, didactic, eccentric, and nature verse. The study is concluded by a generous and representative sampling of Yuan's poetry in translation, the first to do justice to the wide variety and richness of his oeuvre. Although many shorter poems are selected, this is the first translation to include his outstanding longer poetry. Harmony Garden will completely revise current attitudes in the west concerning classical Chines literature during the eighteenth century, a period that was long viewed as one of decline, but now appears to equal the golden ages of antiquity.

Author : Yuan Mei
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781614728511

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Recipes from the Garden of Contentment by Yuan Mei Pdf

Recipes from the Garden of Contentment: Yuan Mei’s Manual of Gastronomy is the first English edition of the Suiyuan Shidan 随園食单, one of the world’s most famous books about food. It is both a culinary treatise and a cookbook, written in the late eighteenth century by the poet Yuan Mei 袁枚. This translation by Sean J. S. Chen conveys the charm, humor, and erudition of one of China’s greatest writers. The book includes recipes for well-known yet exotic dishes such as bird’s nest and shark’s fin, and offers modern readers a unique perspective on Chinese history and culinary culture.

Author : Liuxi Meng
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0739112570

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Poetry as Power by Liuxi Meng Pdf

In this thought-provoking analysis, Liuxi Meng profiles eighteenth-century poet Qu Bingyun and her development as an artist. By giving special attention to her dynamic interaction with contemporaries, Meng provides an extensive and detailed picture of the female writer's life and art in the golden age of Chinese women's literature.

Author : Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791481790

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Confucianism and Women by Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee Pdf

Confucianism and Women argues that Confucian philosophy—often criticized as misogynistic and patriarchal—is not inherently sexist. Although historically bound up with oppressive practices, Confucianism contains much that can promote an ethic of gender parity. Attacks on Confucianism for gender oppression have marked China's modern period, beginning with the May Fourth Movement of 1919 and reaching prominence during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. The West has also readily characterized Confucianism as a foundation of Chinese women's oppression. Author Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee challenges readers to consider the culture within which Confucianism has functioned and to explore what Confucian thought might mean for women and feminism. She begins the work by clarifying the intellectual tradition of Confucianism and discussing the importance of the Confucian cultural categories yin-yang and nei-wai (inner-outer) for gender ethics. In addition, the Chinese tradition of biographies of virtuous women and books of instruction by and for women is shown to provide a Confucian construction of gender. Practices such as widow chastity, footbinding, and concubinage are discussed in light of Confucian ethics and Chinese history. Ultimately, Rosenlee lays a foundation for a future construction of Confucian feminism as an alternative ethical ground for women's liberation.

Author : Cuncun Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134312863

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Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China by Cuncun Wu Pdf

Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China is the richest exploration to date of late imperial Chinese literati interest in male love. Employing primary sources such as miscellanies, poetry, fiction and 'flower guides', Wu Cuncun argues that male homoeroticism played a central role in the cultural life of late imperial Chinese literati elites. Countering recent arguments that homosexuality was marginal and disparaged during this period, the book also seeks to trace the relationship of homoeroticism to status and power. In addition to historical portraits and analysis, the book also advances the concept of 'sensibilities' as a method for interpreting the complex range of homoerotic texts produced in late imperial China.

Author : Zuyan Zhou
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789629964979

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Daoist Philosophy and Literati Writings in Late Imperial China by Zuyan Zhou Pdf

This volume first explores the transformation of Chinese Daoism in late imperial period through the writings of prominent intellectuals of the times. In such a cultural context, it then launches an indepth investigation into the Daoist dimensions of the Chinese narrative masterpiece, The Story of the Stone—the inscriptions of Quanzhen Daoism in the infrastructure of its religious framework, the ideological ramifications of the Daoist concepts of chaos, purity, and the natural, as well as the Daoist images of the gourd, fish, and bird. Zhou presents the central position of Daoist philosophy both in the ideological structure of the Stone, and the literati culture that engenders it.

Author : Martin W. Huang
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438469010

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Intimate Memory by Martin W. Huang Pdf

Sheds new light on pre-modern Chinese gender relationships in the context of marriage, male Confucian literati self-presentation, and social networks. In the first study of its kind about the role played by intimate memory in the mourning literature of late imperial China, Martin W. Huang focuses on the question of how men mourned and wrote about women to whom they were closely related. Drawing upon memoirs, epitaphs, biographies, litanies, and elegiac poems, Huang explores issues such as how intimacy shaped the ways in which bereaved male authors conceived of womanhood and how such conceptualizations were inevitably also acts of self-reflection about themselves as men. Their memorial writings reveal complicated self-images as husbands, brothers, sons, and educated Confucian males, while their representations of women are much more complex and diverse than the representations we find in more public genres such as Confucian female exemplar biographies. Martin W. Huang is Professor of Chinese at the University of California, Irvine and the author of Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China.

Author : Yuan Mei
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781614728269

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The Way of Eating by Yuan Mei Pdf

The Way of Eating: Yuan Mei`s Manual of Gastronomy (Suiyuan Shidan) is, remarkably, the first English edition of one of the world’s most famous books about food. The Way of Eating is a treatise and a cookbook, written in the late eighteenth century by the Qing dynasty poet Yuan Mei. It includes recipes for well-known dishes such as birds nest and sharks fin, and offers modern readers an appealing perspective on Chinese history and culinary culture, and was translated and annotated by Sean J. S. Chen with editorial advice from E. N. Anderson and Jeffrey Riegel. This edition is in English but includes Chinese characters and vocabulary, and is 250 pages in length. The team’s aim was to convey the charm, humor, and erudition of one of China’s greatest writers. Also included are a glossary and a bibliography of additional sources. Chinese food expert Nicole Mones, author of the novel The Last Chinese Chef, has contributed an engaging introduction to Yuan Mei and his work. “This is far more than a cookbook: The Way of Eating is food history at its finest, a window into a fascinating and long-lost world.” Ruth Reichl, author of Save Me the Plums Translator and annotator Sean Jy-Shyang Chen is a scientific developer for computer assisted minimally invasive neurosurgery. This is his first publication outside the fields of science and engineering.

Author : J. D. Schmidt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136862175

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Harmony Garden by J. D. Schmidt Pdf

This is the first complete study of China's most popular eighteenth-century poet in any Western language. The work consists of a detailed biography, a study of Yuan's revolutionary reinterpretation of Chinese literary theory, and an analysis of his many contributions to the more original genres of Qing-dynasty (1644-1911) poetry such as narrative, historical, didactic, eccentric, and nature verse. The study is concluded by a generous and representative sampling of Yuan's poetry in translation, the first to do justice to the wide variety and richness of his oeuvre. Although many shorter poems are selected, this is the first translation to include his outstanding longer poetry. Harmony Garden will completely revise current attitudes in the west concerning classical Chines literature during the eighteenth century, a period that was long viewed as one of decline, but now appears to equal the golden ages of antiquity.

Author : Kang-i Sun Chang,Stephen Owen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Sing-chen Lydia Chiang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047414841

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Collecting the Self by Sing-chen Lydia Chiang Pdf

Chinese strange tale collections contain short stories about ghosts and animal spirits, supra-human heroes and freaks, exotic lands and haunted homes, earthquake and floods, and other perceived “anomalies” to accepted cosmic and social norms. As such, this body of literature is a rich repository of Chinese myths, folklore, and unofficial “histories”. These collections also reflect Chinese attitudes towards normalcy and strangeness, perceptions of civilization and barbarism, and fantasies about self and other. Inspired in part by Freud’s theory of the uncanny, this book explores the emotive subtexts of late imperial strange tale collections to consider what these stories tell us about suppressed cultural anxieties, the construction of gender, and authorial self-identity.

Author : Jerry D. Schmidt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004252295

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The Poet Zheng Zhen (1806-1864) and the Rise of Chinese Modernity by Jerry D. Schmidt Pdf

In The Poet Zheng Zhen (1806-1864) and the Rise of Chinese Modernity, J. D. Schmidt provides the first detailed study in a Western language of one of China's greatest poets and explores the nineteenth-century background to Chinese modernity, challenging the widely held view that this is largely of Western origin. The volume contains a study of Zheng's life and times, an examination of his thought and literary theory, and four chapters studying his highly original contributions to poetry on the human realm, nature verse, narrative poetry, and the poetry of ideas, including his writings on science and technology. Over a hundred pages of translations of his verse conclude the work.

Author : United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Topographic Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Geography
ISBN : PSU:000015801975

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Republic of China, Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names by United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Topographic Center Pdf