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Download or read book Crazy Ji written by Meir Shahar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crazy Ji: Chinese Religion and Popular Literatureis the first study in any language of one of the most colorful deities in the pantheon of late imperial and modern China: Sire Ji-or, as he is better known, Crazy Ji. The author uses the evolution of the cult of this eccentric deity to address central questions regarding the nature of the Chinese religion tradition, its relation to the Chinese social structure, and the role of vernacular fiction and popular media in shaping religious beliefs in China. Meir Shara demonstrates that vernacular novels and oral literature played a major role in the dissemination of knowledge about deities and the growth of cults and argues that the body of religious beliefs and practices we call "Chinese religion" is inseparable from the works of fiction and drama that have served as vehicles for its transmission. His analysis of the cult of Crazy Ji shows that far from being, as is often argued, a mirror of the Chinese bereaucratic order, Chinese religion offers a means of liberation from it. Finally, this study of the cult of Crzy Ji illustrates how lay believers influenced the practices of organized religion (in this case, monastic Buddhism). This study employs the analytical concepts of anthropology and literary criticism and is based on literary, historical, and ethnographic sources ranging from oral literature, vernacular novels, puppet plays, television serials, movies, local gazetteers, to monastic histories.
Book Synopsis Adventures of the Mad Monk Ji Gong by : Guo Xiaoting
Download or read book Adventures of the Mad Monk Ji Gong written by Guo Xiaoting and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the brilliant and hilarious adventures of the Zen Buddhist monk who became one of China's greatest folk heroes! During the Song Dynasty (960-1279), Ji Gong studied at the renowned Ling Yin monastery, nestled in the steep hills above Hangzhou. The Chan (Zen) Buddhist masters of the temple tried to instruct Ji Gong in the spartan practices of their sect, but the young monk, following in the footsteps of other great ne'er-do-wells, distinguished himself mainly by getting expelled. He left the monastery, became a wanderer with hardly a proper piece of clothing to wear, and achieved significant renown--in seedy wine shops and drinking establishments! That could have been where Ji Gong's story ended. But his unorthodox style of Buddhism soon made him a hero for storytellers of his era. Audiences delighted in tales where the mad old monk ignored--or even mocked--authority, defied common sense, and never neglected the wine, yet still managed to save the day. Ji Gong remains popular in China even today, where he regularly appears as the wise drunkard in movies and TV shows. In these 89 stories, you'll read about Ji Gong's rogue's knack for exposing the corrupt and criminal while still pursuing the twin delights of enlightenment and intoxication. This literary classic of a traveling martial arts master will entertain readers of all ages!
Book Synopsis Ex-husband, Let Me Go (BOOK #2） by : NovelCat
Download or read book Ex-husband, Let Me Go (BOOK #2） written by NovelCat and published by NovelCat. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the seventh day of marriage, Ji Yan was still locked up in the basement. She was forcibly sent to Shang family by her parents to replace her sister and marry the monster man, Shang Jinshen, who is rumored to be unable to walk. During these seven days, only one hot man comes to the basement every day to see her and provoke her. That time, she decides to fight back and bites the man, but she pays the price by having her first time taken away by the hot man. Finally, after ten days of captivity, she was released. When the Madam of the Shang family humiliates her for her poverty, her so-called husband shows up to defend her. She saw Shang Jinshen sitting in a wheelchair with many scars on his face. But what she doesn't know is that this image of weakness is a pretence by Shang Jinshen. The man who took away her virginity is the real Shang Jinshen.
Book Synopsis Ji Gong the Crazy Monk by : Pei Ki Goh
Download or read book Ji Gong the Crazy Monk written by Pei Ki Goh and published by Asiapac Books Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2002 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legends of Ji Gong first appeared as a literary work during the Song Dynasty. While the original author has become obscure, the stories of Ji Gong - an immortal who mingled with ordinary people, humorously depicted as a scruffy monk - have long retained their place as part of popular culture.
Book Synopsis CEO's Evil Sweet Wife by : Feng SiNiang
Download or read book CEO's Evil Sweet Wife written by Feng SiNiang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People said that angels and devils were often separated by a single line, but who knew how much pain and struggle there was between that line ...The color of the blood was so bright that it was almost blinding.Girl stared blankly at the wound on his left wrist, watching as hot blood continued to gush out from the wound. The knife in her hand that was stained with her blood slowly fell to the ground, emitting a clanging sound, but she still didn't have any reaction.Her white face was filled with an unconcealable sense of despair and serenity. Those eyes that had once been filled with smiles were now nothing more than ashes. Her eyes were still focused on the blood flowing out of her body, watching it slowly spread on the floor, but she still didn't panic at all.Just flow! Hurry up and drain it! "If she could just let her life end at this moment, she knew that perhaps only death could truly free her right now ..."
Book Synopsis CEO's Secretly Pregnant Wife by : Pin NiFaHaoWuKong
Download or read book CEO's Secretly Pregnant Wife written by Pin NiFaHaoWuKong and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl's daughter had harmed her, a girl's lover and elder sister were holding hands and strolling through the streets. Her father and elder sister had met with mishap. The truth of her mother's death was unknown ... Xie Chi cowardly chose to flee. When she returned, she swore to show them who was boss!
Book Synopsis Morning, Proud Uncle! by : Jiang Moxi
Download or read book Morning, Proud Uncle! written by Jiang Moxi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destiny — — The Dominator of life, gradually sank into the dark quagmire after it began to depart.She was born the same day as she was and adopted by the same person at the age of six.He lowered his head. "Call me uncle from now on!"He gave a Girl the most precious diamond in the world, making her an untouchable princess.He gave the other Girl the lowliest sand grain in the world and made her into a low-class, messy grey GIRL.The princess lived in a room covered with lace. She lived in a dark, cluttered room.When she was 10, her uncle said that Girl had good long hair. She had secretly kept it, but he had cut it off her.At 12, her uncle said that her skin was Tai Bai's and he forcefully smeared mud on her face.At the age of 15, her uncle came to her junk room and took her, but his heart was strangely warm, so she knew what love was.At the age of 18, she grew up and confessed to him. However, he cruelly smiled and mocked, "You're useless."Trampling her love, she accepted all the sadness!One day, she said, I will be a beautiful swan!What was left behind after his gorgeous transformation were flaking gray Feather s on the ground! Whose mother did he hate? Who was the daughter of the orphan child who had been exchanged for her identity?
Book Synopsis Love Bed Times With You by : Lian XiaoGe
Download or read book Love Bed Times With You written by Lian XiaoGe and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It should have been something worth celebrating if she was able to coldly and successfully take off the shell of a bachelor dog. Unexpectedly, on the night of their wedding, an earth-shattering thing happened and sent her to hell. An unfamiliar and charming man had arrogantly declared his allegiance to her. Not only did he want her cold body, but he also wanted to take away her heart! Cold panic, chaos, she never dreamed that she would encounter this kind of misfortune. However, the worst was yet to come. The parents who valued boys and girls did not love each other. They quarreled endlessly and broke off all ties. The warm, jade-like husband of the same person actually wanted to send her to the owner's bed in order to get promoted. Just when the world was about to be deserted, the tyrannical man, with the wings of an angel, landed in front of her. He extended his hand to her and said, "Marry me, my Cinderella!"
Book Synopsis Ex-husband, Please Stay by : Hong Doufan
Download or read book Ex-husband, Please Stay written by Hong Doufan and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 1629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her marriage was to stay by herself in a large, empty house. Her marriage lasted from hope until despair. Her marriage was a monthly routine of the 8th. If it's a lie, then just lie for the rest of your life, okay? At least this way, they could continue all the way to the end of their lives.
Book Synopsis Sound Rising from the Paper by : Paize Keulemans
Download or read book Sound Rising from the Paper written by Paize Keulemans and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese martial arts novels from the late nineteenth century are filled with a host of suggestive sounds. Characters cuss and curse in colorful dialect accents, vendor calls ring out from bustling marketplaces, and martial arts action scenes come to life with the loud clash of swords and the sounds of bodies colliding. What is the purpose of these sounds, and what is their history? In Sound Rising from the Paper, Paize Keulemans answers these questions by critically reexamining the relationship between martial arts novels published in the final decades of the nineteenth century and earlier storyteller manuscripts. He finds that by incorporating, imitating, and sometimes inventing storyteller sounds, these novels turned the text from a silent object into a lively simulacrum of festival atmosphere, thereby transforming the solitary act of reading into the communal sharing of an oral performance. By focusing on the role sound played in late nineteenth-century martial arts fiction, Keulemans offers alternatives to the visual models that have dominated our approach to the study of print culture, the commercialization of textual production, and the construction of the modern reading subject.
Book Synopsis De Jiao - A Religious Movement in Contemporary China and Overseas by : Bernard Formoso
Download or read book De Jiao - A Religious Movement in Contemporary China and Overseas written by Bernard Formoso and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De Jiao ("Teaching of Virtue") is a China-born religious movement, based on spirit-writing and rooted in the tradition of the "halls for good deeds," which emerged in Chaozhou during the Sino-Japanese war. The book relates the fascinating process of its spread throughout Southeast Asia in the 1950s, and, more recently, from Thailand and Malaysia to post-Maoist China and the global world. Through a richly-documented multi-site ethnography of De Jiao congregations in the PRC, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand, Bernard Formoso offers valuable insights into the adaptation of Overseas Chinese to sharply contrasted national polities, and the projective identity they build with relation to China. De Jiao is of special interest with regard to its organization and strategies which strongly reflect the managerial habits and entrepreneurial ethos of the Overseas Chinese businessmen. It has also built original bonding with symbols of the Chinese civilization whose greatness it claims to champion from the periphery. Accordingly, a central theme of the study is the role that such a religious movement may play to promote new forms of identification with the motherland as substitutes for loosened genealogical links. The book also offers a comprehensive interpretation of the contemporary practice of fu ji spirit-writing, and reconsiders the relation between unity and diversity in Chinese religion.
Book Synopsis My Husband Is Gay by : Mei Nanbushengshou
Download or read book My Husband Is Gay written by Mei Nanbushengshou and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initially, he thought that it was already a tragedy for a substitute bride to encounter a BT husband. However, he didn't expect her to cross over and become even more tragic. It was the same betrothal, but she made the offer on behalf of her younger brother to marry a husband with broken sleeves ... What was even more tragic was that her husband was actually the handsome Lao Wu. Was there anything more tragic than not being able to eat a whole bunch of delicacies? Sigh... Fortunately, after marrying him for three years, she would be able to acquire enormous wealth. Then she would reluctantly accept the challenge. For the sake of money, even if she wasn't a transvestite, she would still give it her all! However, the more they stayed together, the more they felt that something was wrong. Could it be that she really had developed an uncontrollable lust for this ancient handsome guy who had problems with his sexual orientation?
Book Synopsis Devil Master Protects Me by : Fei NiaoHeYu
Download or read book Devil Master Protects Me written by Fei NiaoHeYu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first time they met at the airport, she had hidden herself in the arms of his germaphrodisiac, hiding from the brother of her scheming stepfather. The second time he had saved her from being sold and drugged by her stepfather, what kind of sparks would she and he produce?
Book Synopsis CEO, Give Me a Hug by : , Zhenyinfang
Download or read book CEO, Give Me a Hug written by , Zhenyinfang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: None of us could have imagined that the distance could be so far away. We never thought that there would be so much emotion between us. Control, understand and be considerate. It seems that they are all remote pronouns, all of which I can't understand. Ji Meiling didn't think that she could fall in love with him one day, let alone that two people could walk into the auditorium. All these incredible things happened in front of her. When all this came true, he knew that he could expect a lot of things. Mo Junchen did not think that he would meet such a girl in his life, so confused, so affecting people's hearts, all because I love you. Only when Mo Junchen and Ji Meiling are together is happiness.
Book Synopsis CEO’s 100 Proposals by : Feng ZhiXue
Download or read book CEO’s 100 Proposals written by Feng ZhiXue and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He had been in love for eight years, and yet he was told that he was going to be married. Wasn't it her? Nani! Qingcheng wedding, originally wanted to disturb the wedding scene, but was forced to give the bride Kopp 36, despair! International Great Star: If I can't even get a single rookie to follow the rules, what's the point of me getting here? Ji Rufeng: God of Men, what nonsense are you saying in the middle of the day? Elegant lawyer: My property is yours, and yours is mine. Ji Rufeng: Talking to a lawyer about property ownership, I'm afraid there's nothing left of the divorce. Cold-Blooded Assassin: Either I kill you, or you love me alive.
Book Synopsis Rebirth: Please Take Care This Life by : Zhang XiaoLin
Download or read book Rebirth: Please Take Care This Life written by Zhang XiaoLin and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Christmas Eve, he encountered a third party that was trying to force him into a corner. He was poisoned, and then caught in a fire. This was all due to Ji Xiaomo's impenetrable death. She was paralyzed on the bed. She stood there tenaciously for six years, but in the end, she was silenced. Who on earth hated her so much? After his rebirth, he killed the scum man and battled Little Three. She thought that she had already avenged her great grudge, but a new wave of schemes approached her once again ...
Book Synopsis Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists by : Keith McMahon
Download or read book Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists written by Keith McMahon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having multiple wives was one of the mainstays of male privilege during the Ming and Qing dynasties of late imperial China. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists examines how such privilege functions in these novels and provides the first full account of literary representations of sexuality and gender in pre-modern China. In many examples of rare erotic fiction, and in other works as well-known as Dream of the Red Chamber, Keith McMahon identifies a sexual economy defined by the figures of the "miser" and the "shrew"--caricatures of the retentive, self-containing man and the overflowing, male-enervating woman. Among these and other characters, the author explores the issues surrounding the practice of polygamy, the logic of its overvaluation of masculinity, and the nature of sexuality generally in Chinese society. How does the man with many wives manage and justify his sexual authority? Why and how might he escape or limit this presumed authority, sometimes to the point of portraying himself as abject before the shrewish woman? How do women accommodate or coddle the man, or else oppose, undermine, or remold him? And in what sense does the man place himself lower than the spiritually and morally superior woman? The most extensive English-language study of Chinese literature from the eighteenth century, this examination of polygamy will interest not only students of Chinese history, culture, and literature but also all those concerned with histories of gender and sexuality.
