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Classical Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic

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Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book Classical Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic written by and published by . This book was released on 1985-12-22 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chinese literary history, the Six Dynasties (317-588) and the T'ang (618-906) were the great creative times for the production of supernatural and fantastic stories in the classical language. This major collection of ninety-six stories, most of them newly translated, represents the very best of this tradition. These are all basically fictional narratives or stories, but unlike Western supernatural stories, are considered more or less as records of observable facts and have the effect of giving the fantastic a rootedness in historical reality. Underlying the recording of these supernatual stories is a belief in supernaturalism and magic and, above all, the acceptance of the unnatural and the supernormal on their face value as factual.

Classical Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic

Author : Karl S. Kao
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ISBN 13 : 9780783787213
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Classical Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic written by Karl S. Kao and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chinese literary history, the Six Dynasties (317-588) and the T'ang (618-906) were the great creative times for the production of supernatural and fantastic stories in the classical language. This major collection of ninety-six stories, most of them newly translated, represents the very best of this tradition. These are all basically fictional narratives or stories, but unlike Western supernatural stories, are considered more or less as records of observable facts and have the effect of giving the fantastic a rootedness in historical reality. Underlying the recording of these supernatual stories is a belief in supernaturalism and magic and, above all, the acceptance of the unnatural and the supernormal on their face value as factual.

Classical Chinese Literature: From antiquity to the Tang dynasty

Author : John Minford
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231096775
Total Pages : 1252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (967 download)

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Book Synopsis Classical Chinese Literature: From antiquity to the Tang dynasty by : John Minford

Download or read book Classical Chinese Literature: From antiquity to the Tang dynasty written by John Minford and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains English translations of Chinese writings drawn from throughout a period of four hundred years, including poems, drama, fiction, songs, biographies, and early works of philosophy and history; arranged chronologically and by genre, with introductory quotes and comments.

Hidden and Visible Realms

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231547056
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Hidden and Visible Realms written by and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese culture of the Six Dynasties period (220–589) saw a blossoming of stories of the fantastic. Zhiguai, “records of the strange” or “accounts of anomalies,” tell of encounters with otherness, in which inexplicable and uncanny phenomena interrupt mundane human affairs. They depict deities, ghosts, and monsters; heaven, the underworld, and the immortal lands; omens, metamorphoses, and trafficking between humans and supernatural beings; and legendary figures, strange creatures, and natural wonders in the human world. Hidden and Visible Realms, traditionally attributed to Liu Yiqing, is one of the most significant zhiguai collections, distinguished by its varied contents, elegant writing style, and fascinating stories. It is also among the earliest collections heavily influenced by Buddhist beliefs, values, and concerns. Beyond the traditional zhiguai narratives, it includes tales of karmic retribution, reincarnation, and Buddhist ghosts, hell, and magic. In this annotated first complete English translation, Zhenjun Zhang gives English-speaking readers a sense of the wealth and wonder of the zhiguai canon. Hidden and Visible Realms opens a window into the lives, customs, and religious beliefs and practices of early medieval China and the cultural history of Chinese Buddhism. In the introduction, Zhang explains the key themes and textual history of the work.

Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction

Author : Xiaohuan Zhao
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction written by Xiaohuan Zhao and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first attempt ever made at a systematic analysis of classical Chinese supernatural fiction known as zhiguai under the morphological framework designed by Vladimir Propp (1928) and later developed by Alan Dundes (1964). The focus is on a synchronic presentation of textual features and structural patterns of zhiguai fiction, but the book includes a general review of zhiguai literature from Sahnhai Jin to Liaozhai Zhiyi.

Buddhism and Tales of the Supernatural in Early Medieval China

Author : Zhenjun Zhang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004277846
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Buddhism and Tales of the Supernatural in Early Medieval China by : Zhenjun Zhang

Download or read book Buddhism and Tales of the Supernatural in Early Medieval China written by Zhenjun Zhang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the literary thematic changes, Buddhist imagery, and new motifs in the fantastic dreamworld as seen in the tales of the supernatural in early medieval China.

Some Chinese Ghosts

Author : Lafcadio Hearn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
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Download or read book Some Chinese Ghosts written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Love and Women in Early Chinese Fiction

Author : Daniel Hsieh
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN 13 : 9882378846
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (823 download)

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Book Synopsis Love and Women in Early Chinese Fiction by : Daniel Hsieh

Download or read book Love and Women in Early Chinese Fiction written by Daniel Hsieh and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In traditional China, upper-class literati were inevitably strongly influenced by Confucian doctrine and rarely touched upon such topics as love and women in their writings. It was not until the mid-Tang, a generation or two after the An Lushan rebellion, that literary circles began to engage in overt discussion of the issues of love and women, through the use of the newly emerging genres of zhiguai and chuanqi fiction. The debate was carried out with an unprecedented enthusiasm, since the topics were considered to be the key to understanding the crisis in Chinese civilization. This book examines the repertoire of chuanqi and zhiguai written during the Six Dynasties and Tang periods and analyzes the key themes, topics, and approaches found in these tales, which range from expressions of male fantasy, sympathy, fear, and anxiety, to philosophical debate on the place of the feminine in patriarchal Chinese society. Many of these stories reflect tensions between masculine and feminine aspects of civilization as seen, for example, in the conflict of male aspiration and female desire, as well as the ultimate longing for reconciliation of these divisions. These stories form a crucial chapter in the history of love in China and would provide much of the foundation for further explorations during the late imperial period, as seen in seminal works such as The Peony Pavilion and Dream of the Red Chamber.

Chinese Ghost Stories - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio

Author : Songling Pu
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Ghost Stories - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio written by Songling Pu and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Ghost Stories - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, is a collection of 164 Classical Chinese stories compiled by Pu Songling. These hair-raising tales focus on the everyday life of commoners and their interaction ghosts, fox spirits, immortals, demons and other spirits. Pu Songling used the supernatural and the unexplainable to illustrate his ideas of society and government. Through the stories he criticized the corruption and injustice in society and sympathized with the poor. With the embedded Confucian-styled moral standards and Taoist principles this collection of supernatural stories. Dating back to the Qing dynasty, its earliest publication date is given as 1740. Since then, many of the critically lauded stories have been adapted for other media such as film and television. Long considered of true classic of Chinese literature, this second edition of Herbert Giles translation, with over 600 footnotes of backstory, provides a fascinating glimpse into the daily life of the Chinese in the time period, while tantalizing the reader with tales of the supernatural.

Chinese Tales of the Supernatural

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ISBN 13 : 9789676500595
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Chinese Tales of the Supernatural written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chinese Storyteller's Book

Author : Michael David Kwan
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462901301
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Storyteller's Book written by Michael David Kwan and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a universe constructed in layers: At the top is Heaven—where the gods live. Beneath is the Earth, where people dwell. And beneath the Earth lies a magical realm of witches, vampires, ghosts, and immortal foxes capable of assuming human form. This is the universe of Chinese folktale. The nine tales in The Chinese Storytellers Book show what happens when the worlds of Earth and the supernatural collide. The cast of characters, both humble and fantastic, includes: A young man willing to spend a night in a haunted mansion to prove that the spirit world does not exist Fox faeries wearying of their immortality and craving the uncertainty of human experiences A bored husband looking for excitement—but finding mortal danger instead Michael David Kwan first heard these tales told by street–corner storytellers during his childhood in China. He retells them through his own unique literary vision—through the lens of his own personality, experience, and imagination.

The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature

Author : William H. Nienhauser
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253334565
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (345 download)

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Book Synopsis The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature by : William H. Nienhauser

Download or read book The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature written by William H. Nienhauser and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""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.

Dynamics in the History of Religions Between Asia and Europe

Author : Volkhard Krech
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004185003
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Dynamics in the History of Religions Between Asia and Europe written by Volkhard Krech and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conference volume of the Bochumer Kolleg “Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe” outlines the thesis that religion is not a homogeneous cultural phenomenon, but a dense network of diachronically and synchronically differing traditions.

Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament

Author : Victor H. Mair
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350337226
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament written by Victor H. Mair and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions of ancient peoples, poems of mourning and texts of lament stand out in classical Chinese literature as brilliant and unique. Composed and celebrated over 3000 years, they are central to the Chinese literary tradition but have been largely unknown to English readers. Including over 100 major pieces by leading literary figures from 800 BCE 1800, this is the first English anthology of classic Chinese poems of mourning and texts of sacrificial offering. With annotated translations by leading scholars and reading guides accompanying each piece, this book reveals a powerful literary heritage to students and serious readers of Chinese literature, history and civilization.

Books, Tales and Vernacular Culture

Author : Glen Dudbridge
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047415892
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Books, Tales and Vernacular Culture written by Glen Dudbridge and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen research papers on traditional China. They form three groups, each mixing discursive pieces with more technical research: books and publishing; medieval narrative and culture; vernacular culture. Fundamentally these studies develop a more open way of reading China’s traditional narrative literature.

Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol. 3 & 4)

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004271856
Total Pages : 1036 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol. 3 & 4) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide, this work offers a wealth of information on writers, genres, literary schools and terms of the Chinese literary tradition from earliest times to the seventh century C.E. Indispensable for scholars and students of pre-modern Chinese literature, history, and thought. Part Three contains Xia - Y. Part Four contains the Z and an extensive index to the four volumes.

The Columbia History of Chinese Literature

Author : Victor H. Mair
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231109857
Total Pages : 1369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Columbia History of Chinese Literature written by Victor H. Mair and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 1369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive yet portable, this account of the development of Chinese literature from the very beginning up to the present brings the riches of this august literary tradition into focus for the general reader. Organized chronologically with thematic chapters interspersed, the fifty-five original chapters by leading specialists cover all genres and periods of poetry, prose, fiction, and drama, with a special focus on such subjects as popular culture, the impact of religion upon literature, the role of women, and relationships with non-Sinitic languages and peoples.