Strange Tales from Make-do Studio
Author: Songling Pu
Publisher: China Books & Periodicals
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13:
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Chinese Literature
Author: Dan Yao
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-09
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0521186781
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This accessible, illustrated introduction takes the reader through the rich Chinese literary tradition from ancient times to the twentieth century, exploring poetry, drama, opera, novels, short stories, the modern media and the authors who created these cultural treasures.
The Tower of Myriad Mirrors
Author: Yueh Tung
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2020-06-01
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 0892649097
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →China’s most outrageous character—the magical Monkey who battles a hundred monsters—returns to the fray in this seventeenth-century sequel to the Buddhist novel Journey to the West. In The Tower of Myriad Mirrors, he defends his claim to enlightenment against a villain who induces hallucinations that take Monkey into the past, to heaven and hell, and even through a sex change. The villain turns out to be the personification of his own desires, aroused by his penetration of a female adversary’s body in Journey to the West. The Tower of Myriad Mirrors is the only novel of Tung Yüeh (1620–1686), a monk and Confucian scholar. Tung picks up the slapstick of the original tale and overlays it with Buddhist theory and bitter satire of the Ming government’s capitulation to the Manchus. After a nod to Journey’s storyteller format, Tung carries Monkey’s quest into an evocation of shifting psychological states rarely found in premodern fiction. An important though relatively unknown link in the development of the Chinese novel, and a window into late Ming intellectual history, The Tower of Myriad Mirrors further rewards by being a wonderful read.
Translating Chinese Literature
Author: Eugene Chen Eoyang
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780253319586
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Enth.: Papers presented at the first International conference on the translation of Chinese literature held in Taipei, Nov. 19-21, 1990.
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio; Volume 1
Author: Herbert Allen Giles
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781018446028
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
Author: Victor H. Mair
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2001-01-03
Total Pages: 902
ISBN-13: 0231505620
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With its fresh translations by newer voices in the field, its broad scope, and its flowing style, this anthology places the immense riches of Chinese literature within easy reach. Ranging from the beginnings to 1919, this abridged version of The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature retains all the characteristics of the original. In putting together these selections Victor H. Mair interprets "literature" very broadly to include not just literary fiction, poetry, and drama, but folk and popular literature, lyrics and arias, elegies and rhapsodies, biographies, autobiographies and memoirs, letters, criticism and theory, and travelogues and jokes.
Wailing Ghosts
Author: Pu Songling
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2015-02-26
Total Pages: 59
ISBN-13: 0141398175
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.' Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast' Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Pu Songling (1640-1715). Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is available in Penguin Classics.
Reading China [electronic resource]
Author: Daria Berg
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9004154833
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume develops a new style of reading Chinese sources, as pioneered in Chinese Studies by Professor Glen Dudbridge, providing fascinating new insights into Chinese literature, history and popular culture. The analysis of self-fashioning, representation and political propaganda sheds new light on Chinese perceptions of the world.
Chinese Narratology II
Author: Yang Yi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-11-30
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1000965139
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As the second volume of a two-volume set on Chinese narratology, this title investigates the quintessential characteristics of the Chinese narrative style, with a focus on image and perspective. The first chapter introduces two opposing concepts of perspective: “focalization” and “blind spot,” to connect “perspective” with traditional aesthetics, highlighting the mutual relation of the nonexistent and the existent. The author believes that both the narrator and perspective are central to the narrative forms and strategies adopted by Chinese writers and that study of the narrator and perspective is integral to understanding the cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical connotations of the narrative text and the spiritual world of the author. Drawing on perceptual phenomenology, the chapter on image broadens the extant knowledge of “image” and points out that image narration is unique to Chinese narratology and central to Chinese aesthetics. The final chapter illustrating the achievements of influential critics of classical Chinese novels, proving that these critics have contributed to the canonization of the genuine masterpieces of Chinese narrative literature. The book is a must-read for scholars and students interested in narrative theory, Chinese culture and literature, and dialogue between Chinese and Western narratological studies.
Historian of the Strange
Author: Judith T. Zeitlin
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 700
ISBN-13: 0804729689
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
