Writing Pirates
Author: Yuanfei Wang
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2021-06-23
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0472038516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines writings on China's oceanic piracy wars of the sixteenth century
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The Chinese Vernacular Story
Author: Patrick Hanan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780674125650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChinese Vernacular Fiction
Author: Wilt Idema
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-09-13
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9004482806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAppropriation and Representation
Author: Yang Shuhui
Publisher: U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Published: 2021-01-19
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 0472038109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeng 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.
Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China
Author: Martin W. Huang
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-03-23
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1684173574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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."
Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Author: Patrick Hanan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780231133241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt has often been said that the nineteenth century was a relatively stagnant period for Chinese fiction, but preeminent scholar Patrick Hanan shows that the opposite is true: the finest novels of the nineteenth century show a constant experimentation and evolution. In this collection of detailed and insightful essays, Hanan examines Chinese fiction before and during the period in which Chinese writers first came into contact with western fiction. Hanan explores the uses made of fiction by westerners in China; the adaptation and integration of western methods in Chinese fiction; and the continued vitality of the Chinese fictional tradition. Some western missionaries, for example, wrote religious novels in Chinese, almost always with the aid of native assistants who tended to change aspects of the work to "fit" Chinese taste. Later, such works as Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," Jonathan Swift's "A Voyage to Lilliput," the novels of Jules Verne, and French detective stories were translated into Chinese. These interventions and their effects are explored here for virtually the first time.
Reading for the Moral
Author: Maria Franca Sibau
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2018-03-20
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1438469918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReading 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.
Traditional Chinese Stories
Author: Yau-Woon Ma
Publisher: Cheng & Tsui
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 634
ISBN-13: 9780887270710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor centuries the Chinese referred to their fiction as xiaoshuo, etymologically meaning roadside gossip or small talk, and held it in relative disregard.
The Columbia History of Chinese Literature
Author: Victor H. Mair
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010-03-10
Total Pages: 1369
ISBN-13: 0231528515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Columbia History of Chinese Literature is a comprehensive yet portable guide to China's vast literary traditions. Stretching from earliest times to the present, the text features original contributions by leading specialists working in all genres and periods. Chapters cover poetry, prose, fiction, and drama, and consider such contextual subjects as popular culture, the impact of religion, the role of women, and China's relationship with non-Sinitic languages and peoples. Opening with a major section on the linguistic and intellectual foundations of Chinese literature, the anthology traces the development of forms and movements over time, along with critical trends, and pays particular attention to the premodern canon.
Monstrosity and Chinese Cultural Identity
Author: ISAAC. YUE
Publisher:
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781621965046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing four case studies on the developmental history of the fox demon, Zhang Fei, Sun Wukong, and Zhong Kui in vernacular literature, this book examines the interconnection between the idea of monstrosity (through its traditional connection to foreignness) and the emergence of Chinese cultural identity since the Song dynasty.
