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The Attraction of the Fox Fairy in Liaozhai Zhiyi
Demon Catcher's Fox Wife
Author: Xie BuFan
Publisher: Funstory
Published: 2019-12-30
Total Pages: 611
ISBN-13: 1647874483
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As a scholar, Zhang Nan had always wanted to become one of the nine great demon catcher s, whose name resounded throughout the world. However, he had never thought that the difficulty of the great tribulation, which involved ten thousand people in the human world, would have quietly arrived...
The Core of Chinese Classical Fiction
Author: Jianing Chen
Publisher: Beijing : New World Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 1226
ISBN-13:
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The Encarta Book of Quotations
Author: Bill Swainson
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2000-09-30
Total Pages: 1360
ISBN-13: 9780312230005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Here are 25,000 quotations drawn from the history, politics, literature, religions, science, and popular culture of the world--ranging from the earliest Chinese sages through Shakespeare to the present day.
The Painted Skin
Author: Pu Songling
Publisher: Dragon Well Stories
Published: 2014-10-08
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A man flies onto a painting and has a romantic affair with a beauty in it. A Taoist monk punishes a stingy and mean pear seller by planting a pear tree that bears fruits in minutes before giving them away for free, all at the expense of the seller. A young scholar is delighted to find a lover of striking beauty, but only to find out later that it is actually an ugly ghost with a painted human skin … This ebook is a translation of forty fascinating stories of supernatural beings like ghosts and fox spirits from The Remarkable Stories Told at a Chinese Salon, one of the masterpieces in Chinese culture.
Zibuyu, “What The Master Would Not Discuss”, according to Yuan Mei (1716 - 1798): A Collection of Supernatural Stories (2 vols)
Author: Paolo Santangelo
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 1312
ISBN-13: 9004216286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Materials for an Anatomy of Personality in Late Imperial China
Author: Paolo Santangelo
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-01-11
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9047430972
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How was the concept of 'personality' perceived in (late-imperial) China? Re-constructing the main features describing the individual, this volume, firmly based in textual sources, is a reflection on personality and its attributes in China. It discusses terms that express the propensity, inclinations, predispositions, and temperament of subjects, departing from the descriptions that represent one’s and the other’s self, as well as terms that describe or label a person's main qualities or defects. As judgments contribute to formulate the image of ourselves and others, when talking of personality not only individual characters (biological traits, cultural basis, innate and acquired traits and habits) are looked into, but also social values and collective mentality, as well as individual and group subjectivity.
Hongyu, the Fox Fairy
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Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9780835111959
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author exposes the ugliness of the society of his time and the evil doings of the ruling authorities, and portrays the fight of young men and women for love and happiness--Back cover.
