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Author |
: Andrew H. Plaks |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 430 |
Release |
: 2025-03-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691273501 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691273502 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel by : Andrew H. Plaks
A new interpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynasty In this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the “Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel” (ssu ta ch'i-shu). Arguing that these are far more than collections of popular narratives, Plaks shows that their fullest critical revisions represent a sophisticated new genre of Chinese prose fiction arising in the late Ming dynasty, especially in the sixteenth century. He then analyzes these radical transformations of prior source materials, which reflect the values and intellectual concerns of the literati of the period.
Author |
: Yiyan Wang |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2006-04-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134357956 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134357958 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Narrating China by : Yiyan Wang
Jia Pingwa's novels have caused both fame and controversy throughout the Chinese speaking world. This pioneering study examines the corpus of Pingwa's writings, emphasizing his importance, prominence and relevance to modern Chinese society.
Author |
: William H. Nienhauser |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 604 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: 025333456X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253334565 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature by : William H. Nienhauser
""A vertitable feast of concise, useful, reliable, and up-to-dateinformation (all prepared by top scholars in the field), Nienhauser's now two-volumetitle stands alone as THE standard reference work for the study of traditionalChinese literature. Nothing like it has ever been published."" --Choice The second volume to The Indiana Companion to TraditionalChinese Literature is both a supplement and an update to the original volume. VolumeII includes over 60 new entries on famous writers, works, and genres of traditionalChinese literature, followed by an extensive bibliographic update (1985-1997) ofeditions, translations, and studies (primarily in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and German) for the 500+ entries of Volume I.
Author |
: John Ching-yu Wang |
Publisher |
: Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 1993-12-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9622093353 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789622093355 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chinese Literary Criticism of the Ch’ing Period (1644–1911) by : John Ching-yu Wang
In the Ch'ing period, traditional Chinese literary criticism reached its zenith. The ten essays in this volume, all papers presented at a research conference on Ch'ing literary criticism at Stanford University in June 1992, provide a good glimpse of both the breadth and depth of Ch'ing literary criticism, and point to ways to pursue a more thorough and systematic study of literary criticism of this period. Five essays in Chinese, five in English.
Author |
: Alfreda Murck |
Publisher |
: Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages |
: 615 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780870996047 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0870996045 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Words and Images by : Alfreda Murck
In May of 1985, an international symposium was held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in honor of John M. Crawford, Jr., whose gifts of Chinese calligraphy and painting have constituted a significant addition to the Museum's holdings. Over a three-day period, senior scholars from China, Japan, Taiwan, Europe, and the United States expressed a wide range of perspectives on an issue central to the history of Chinese visual aesthetics: the relationships between poetry, calligraphy, and painting. The practice of integrating the three art forms-known as san-chiieh, or the three perfections-in one work of art emerged during the Sung and Yuan dynasties largely in the context of literati culture, and it has stimulated lively critical discussion ever since. This publication contains twenty-three essays based on the papers presented at the Crawford symposium. Grouped by subject matter in a roughly chronological order, these essays reflect research on topics spanning two millennia of Chinese history. The result is an interdisciplinary exploration of the complex set of relationships between words and images by art historians, literary historians, and scholars of calligraphy. Their findings provide us with a new level of understanding of this rich and complicated subject and suggest further directions for the study of Chinese art history. The essays are accompanied by 255 illustrations, some of which reproduce works rarely published. Chinese characters have been provided throughout the text for artists names, terms, titles of works of art and literature, and important historical figures, as well as for excerpts of selected poetry and prose. A chronology, also containing Chinese characters, and an extensive index contribute to making this book illuminating and invaluable to both the specialist and the layman.
Author |
: Zhi Li |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 409 |
Release |
: 2016-06-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231541534 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231541538 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden) by : Zhi Li
Li Zhi's iconoclastic interpretations of history, religion, literature, and social relations have fascinated Chinese intellectuals for centuries. His approach synthesized Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist ethics and incorporated the Neo-Confucian idealism of such thinkers as Wang Yangming (1472–1529). The result was a series of heretical writings that caught fire among Li Zhi's contemporaries, despite an imperial ban on their publication, and intrigued Chinese audiences long after his death. Translated for the first time into English, Li Zhi's bold challenge to established doctrines will captivate anyone curious about the origins of such subtly transgressive works as the sixteenth-century play The Peony Pavilion or the eighteenth-century novel Dream of the Red Chamber. In A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden), Li Zhi confronts accepted ideas about gender, questions the true identity of history's heroes and villains, and offers his own readings of Confucius, Laozi, and the Buddha. Fond of vivid sentiment and sharp expression, Li Zhi made no distinction between high and low literary genres in his literary analysis. He refused to support sanctioned ideas about morality and wrote stinging social critiques. Li Zhi praised scholars who risked everything to expose extortion and misrule. In this sophisticated translation, English-speaking readers encounter the best of this heterodox intellectual's vital contribution to Chinese thought and culture.
Author |
: Margaret Berry |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2010-10-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136836589 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136836586 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Chinese Classic Novels (Routledge Revivals) by : Margaret Berry
First published in 1988, this reissue is an important work in the field of national literary exchange. Declared by American Library Association in its Choice publication one of the ten best reference works of 1988, the volume has survived global change - politically, socially, economically, religiously, aesthetically - to promote cultural dialogue between China and the West. Besides the scores of annotated sources, the introductory essays remain as authentic and moving as the day of their appearance. Equally to be observed is accelerating demand, especially in academic institutions, for global cultural exchange through national literatures. How can we of the English-speaking world, for example, adequately understand and converse with our Chinese counterparts without some appreciation of their culture, notably of Confucian and Taoist roles in their history as reflected in their literature? Overall, a pioneering work whose reissue will be welcomed by both scholars and general readers alike.
Author |
: Kathryn A. Lowry |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 446 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004145863 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004145869 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Tapestry of Popular Songs in 16th- and 17th Century China by : Kathryn A. Lowry
This study of popular songs offers a new hypothesis about the role of elite in popular culture and evidences how commercial publishing facilitated the rise of selective reading and imitation of texts in late-Ming China, creating a new basis for describing desire and the self.
Author |
: Scott W. Gregory |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 159 |
Release |
: 2023-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501769207 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501769200 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bandits in Print by : Scott W. Gregory
Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era. Scott W. Gregory argues that the traditional novel is best understood as a phenomenon of print. He traces the ways in which this particularly influential novel was adapted and altered in the early modern era as it crossed the boundaries of elite and popular, private and commercial, and civil and martial. Moving away from ultimately unanswerable questions about authorship and urtext, Gregory turns instead to the editor-publishers who shaped the novel by crafting their own print editions. By examining the novel in its various incarnations, Bandits in Print shows that print is not only a stabilizing force on literary texts; in particular circumstances and with particular genres, the print medium can be an agent of textual change.
Author |
: Svend Erik Larsen |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 798 |
Release |
: 2022-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027257963 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027257965 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Landscapes of Realism by : Svend Erik Larsen
Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is a two-volume collaborative interdisciplinary investigation of this vast territory, bringing together leading-edge new criticism on the realist paradigms that were first articulated in nineteenth-century Europe but have since gone on globally to transform the literary landscape. Tracing the manifold ways in which these paradigms are developed, discussed and contested across time, space, cultures and media, this second volume shows in its four core essays and twenty-four case studies four major pathways through the landscapes of realism: The psychological pathways focusing on emotion and memory, the referential pathways highlighting the role of materiality, the formal pathways demonstrating the dynamics of formal experiments, and the geographical pathways exploring the worlding of realism through the encounters between European and non-European languages from the nineteenth century to the present.This volume is part of a book set which can be ordered at a special discount: