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Shifting Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 333

Shifting Stories

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-10-26
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  • Publisher: BRILL

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.

Directory of Chinese Personal Names in Indonesia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132

Directory of Chinese Personal Names in Indonesia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1953
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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24 Exciting Plays for Ancient History Classes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 186

24 Exciting Plays for Ancient History Classes

Events drawn from prehistory through the fall of the Roman Empire are presented as dramatizations. Designed primarily for class readings of 10-15 minutes.

Text book of documentary Chinese, with a vocabulary, for the special use of the Chinese Customs Service
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314
新關文件錄
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 610

新關文件錄

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1885
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Plum in the Golden Vase, Or, Chin P_ing Mei: The aphrodisiac
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 810

The Plum in the Golden Vase, Or, Chin P_ing Mei: The aphrodisiac

A five-volume translation of the classic sixteenth-century Chinese novel on the domestic life of a corrupt merchant.

The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Three
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 793

The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Three

The third volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novel This is the third volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P’ing Mei is an anonymous sixteenth-century work that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch’ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. The novel, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of the narrative art form—not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a world-historical context. Written during the second half of the si...

The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Three
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 794

The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Three

A five-volume translation of the classic sixteenth-century Chinese novel on the domestic life of a corrupt merchant

The Cambridge History of Ancient China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1192

The Cambridge History of Ancient China

The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the institutional and cultural history of pre-imperial China.

Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 473

Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness

Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness is the first complete translation in any Western language of P’ahan chip, the earliest Korean work of sihwa (C. shihua; “remarks on poetry”) and one of the oldest extant Korean sources. The collection was written and compiled by Yi Illo (1152–1220) during the mid-Koryǒ dynasty (918–1392). P’ahan chip features poetry composed in Literary Chinese (the scriptura franca of the premodern East Asian “Sinographic Sphere”) by the author and his friends, which included such literary greats as Im Ch’un (dates unknown) and O Sejae (1133–?). P’ahan chip also contains the work of other writers of diverse backgrounds: Chinese master poets, f...