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| Author | : Liangyan Ge |
| Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2001-09-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780824823702 |
Download Out of the Margins Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The novel Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan), China's earliest full-length narrative in vernacular prose, first appeared in print in the sixteenth century. The tale of one hundred and eight bandit heroes evolved from a long oral tradition; in its novelized form, it played a pivotal role in the rise of Chinese vernacular fiction, which flourished during the late Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) periods. Liangyan Ge's multidimensional study considers the evolution of Water Margin and the rise of vernacular fiction against the background of the vernacularization of premodern Chinese literature as a whole. This gradual and arduous process, as the book convincingly shows, was driven by sustained contact and interaction between written culture and popular orality. Ge examines the stylistic and linguistic features of the novel against those of other works of early Chinese vernacular literature (stories, in particular), revealing an accretion of features typical of different historical periods and a prolonged and cumulative process of textualization. In addition to providing a meticulous philological study, his work offers a new reading of the novel that interprets some of its salient characteristics in terms of the interplay between audience, storytellers, and men of letters associated with popular orality.
| Author | : Patrick Hanan |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780674125650 |
Download The Chinese Vernacular Story Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Wilt L. Idema |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9789004039742 |
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| Author | : Yuanfei Wang |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2021-06-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0472038516 |
Download Writing Pirates Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines writings on China's oceanic piracy wars of the sixteenth century
| Author | : Wilt Idema |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2021-09-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004482806 |
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| Author | : Martin W. Huang |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2020-03-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1684173574 |
Download Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"In this new study of desire in Late Imperial China, Martin Huang argues that the development of traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre was closely related to changes in conceptions of the fundamental nature of desire. He further suggests that the rise of vernacular fiction during the late Ming dynasty should be studied in the context of contemporary debates on desire, along with the new and complex views that emerged from those debates.Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China shows that the obsession of authors with individual desire is an essential quality that defines traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre. Thus the maturation of the genre can best be appreciated in terms of its increasingly sophisticated exploration of the phenomenon of desire."
| Author | : Yang Shuhui |
| Publisher | : U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 2021-01-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0472038109 |
Download Appropriation and Representation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Feng Menglong (1574–1646) was recognized as the most knowledgeable connoisseur of popular literature of his time. He is known today for compiling three famous collections of vernacular short stories, each containing forty stories, collectively known as Sanyan. Appropriation and Representation adapts concepts of ventriloquism and dialogism from Bakhtin and Holquist to explore Feng’s methods of selecting source materials. Shuhui Yang develops a model of development in which Feng’s approach to selecting and working with his source materials becomes clear. More broadly, Appropriation and Representation locates Feng Menglong’s Sanyan in the cultural milieu of the late Ming, including the archaist movement in literature, literati marginality and anxieties, the subversive use of folk works, and the meiren xiangcao tradition—appropriating a female identity to express male frustration. Against this background, a rationale emerges for Feng’s choice to elevate and promote the vernacular story while stepping back form an overt authorial role.
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| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2015-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0295805692 |
Download Sanyan Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presented here are nine tales from the celebrated Ming dynasty Sanyan collection of vernacular stories compiled and edited by Feng Menglong (1574–1646), the most knowledgeable connoisseur of popular literature of his time in China. The stories he collected were pivotal to the development of Chinese vernacular fiction, and their importance in the Chinese literary canon and world literature has been compared to that of Boccaccio’s Decameron and the stories of One Thousand and One Nights. Peopled with scholars, emperors, ministers, generals, and a gallery of ordinary men and women in their everyday surroundings—merchants and artisans, prostitutes and courtesans, matchmakers and fortune-tellers, monks and nuns, servants and maids, thieves and imposters—the stories provide a vivid panorama of the bustling world of imperial China before the end of the Ming dynasty. The three volumes constituting the Sanyan set—Stories Old and New, Stories to Caution the World, and Stories to Awaken the World, each containing forty tales—have been translated in their entirety by Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang. The stories in this volume were selected for their popularity with American readers and their usefulness as texts in classes on Chinese and comparative literature. These unabridged translations include all the poetry that is scattered throughout the original stories, as well as Feng Menglong’s interlinear and marginal comments, which point out what seventeenth-century readers of the stories were being asked to appreciate.
| Author | : Maria Franca Sibau |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2018-03-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1438469918 |
Download Reading for the Moral Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reassesses didacticism in seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular fiction and challenges the view that the late Ming was a notoriously immoral time. Reading for the Moral offers an innovative reassessment of the nature of moral representation and exemplarity in Chinese vernacular fiction. Maria Franca Sibau focuses on two little-studied story collections published at the end of the Ming dynasty, Exemplary Words for the World (Xingshi yan, 1632) and Bell in the Still Night (Qingye zhong, c. 1645). Far from being tediously moralistic tales, these stories of loyal ministers, filial children, chaste widows, and selfless friends provide a deeper understanding of the five cardinal relationships central to Confucian ethics. They explore the inherent tension between what we might call textbook morality, on the one hand, and untidy everyday life, on the other. The stories often take a critical view of mechanical notions of retribution, countering it with the logic of virtue as its own reward. Conflict between passion and duty is typically resolved in favor of duty, a duty redefined with a palpable sense of urgency. In constructing vernacular representations of moral exemplars from the recent historical past rather than from remote or fictitious antiquity, the story compilers show how these virtues are not abstract or monolithic norms, but play out within the contingencies of time and space. Maria Franca Sibau is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Emory University.
| Author | : Don Snow |
| Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2004-10-01 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9789622097094 |
Download Cantonese as Written Language Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Cantonese is the only dialect of Chinese which has developed a widely known and used written form. It has played a role in publishing in the Guangdong region since the late Ming dynasty when various types of verses using Cantonese were published as mu yu shu (‘wooden fish books’). In the early twentieth century these dialect texts were joined by Cantonese opera scripts, published as popular reading material. However, it was only after the end of the Second World War that written Cantonese came to be widely used in popular newspapers and magazines, advertising, and in the private communications. Cantonese as Written Language examines this development in the broader context of diglossia, and also of the patterns by which spoken vernaculars have developed written forms in other societies. Based on primary source research, including interviews with publishers and writers who played an important role in the growth of written Cantonese, the author argues that this move of Cantonese into the realm of written language is closely associated with Hong Kong's distinct local culture and identity. The growth of the written vernacular also reflects the territory's evolving cultural distinctiveness from mainland China, first as a British colony, and now as a Special Administrative Region of China.
