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Yang Zijin traveled through time, only to find herself the owner of a brothel¡ dressed as a man. Then, ten years later, her father and step-mother find her. They¡¯re very high status, except her step-mother is more treacherous than she can imagine. Yang Zijin sets off to make herself rich and battle her step-mother. Everything is going according to plan until, she fools around with a Nobleman and gets more than she bargained for.
Yang Zijin traveled through time, only to find herself the owner of a brothel¡ dressed as a man. Then, ten years later, her father and step-mother find her. They¡¯re very high status, except her step-mother is more treacherous than she can imagine. Yang Zijin sets off to make herself rich and battle her step-mother. Everything is going according to plan until, she fools around with a Nobleman and gets more than she bargained for.
The Chinese essay is arguably China’s most distinctive contribution to modern world literature, and the period of its greatest influence and popularity—the mid-1930s—is the central concern of this book. What Charles Laughlin terms "the literature of leisure" is a modern literary response to the cultural past that manifests itself most conspicuously in the form of short, informal essay writing (xiaopin wen). Laughlin examines the essay both as a widely practiced and influential genre of literary expression and as an important counter-discourse to the revolutionary tradition of New Literature (especially realistic fiction), often viewed as the dominant mode of literature at the time. Aft...
"Precious volumes," or pao-chüan, were produced by popular sects in the Ming and early Qing dynasties. These scriptures were believed to have been divinely revealed to sect leaders and contain teachings and ritual instructions that provide valuable information about a lively and widespread religious tradition outside mainstream Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Largely neglected until now, they testify to the imagination and devotion of popular religious leaders. This book, the most detailed and comprehensive study of pao-chüan in any language, studies 34 early examples of this literature in order to understand the origins and development of this textual tradition. Although the work focuses on content and structure, it also treats the social context of these works as well as their transmission and ritual use.
The surviving examples of the early medieval "shelun," a subgenre of the "fu," are translated and interpreted against their political background in this original contribution to Chinese "Nanbeichao" studies.
Yang Zijin traveled through time, only to find herself the owner of a brothel¡ dressed as a man. Then, ten years later, her father and step-mother find her. They¡¯re very high status, except her step-mother is more treacherous than she can imagine. Yang Zijin sets off to make herself rich and battle her step-mother. Everything is going according to plan until, she fools around with a Nobleman and gets more than she bargained for.