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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968367
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Reflections on Dream of the Red Chamber written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cao Xueqin
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775416747
Total Pages : 2120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Dream of the Red Chamber written by Cao Xueqin and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 2120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dream of the Red Chamber is one of the four Chinese classics. The novel is semi-autobiographical and it gives an incredibly detailed insight into 18th-century life in China, particularly that of the aristocracy. The plot is grand in scale, peopled with a complex array of characters.
Author : Zhang Xiugui
Publisher : Cliffs Notes
ISBN 13 : 9780822004189
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Dream of the Red Chamber written by Zhang Xiugui and published by Cliffs Notes. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. CliffsNotes on Dream of the Red Chamber explores China's best-known novel, a massive, sprawling story set during the Ching Dynasty, China's last feudal society. Following the ups and downs of four leading aristocratic families, this study guide provides summaries and commentaries for each chapter within this wide-sweeping eighteenth-century novel. Other features that help you figure out this important work include Introduction to and historical background on the novel Background on the authors Character list and selected genealogies Critical essays on the significance and limitations of the novel Suggested essay topics Selected bibliography Classic literature or modern-day treasure - you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
Author : Ruoxi Chen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253216908
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (169 download)
Download or read book The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Revised Edition written by Ruoxi Chen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A classic of modern world literature, this collection of stories provides a vivid eyewitness view of everyday life in China during the Cultural Revolution. For this edition, the text has been thoroughly revised and updated to Pinyin romanization. A new introduction reflects on the book's significance in the post-Tianamen era.
Author : Pauline A. Chen
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307946568
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Red Chamber written by Pauline A. Chen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteenth-century China, the beautiful orphan Daiyu leaves her home in the provinces to seek shelter with her mother's family in Beijing. At Rongguo Mansion, she is drawn into a world of sumptuous feasts, silken robes, and sparkling jewels—as well as a complex web of secret rivalries and intrigues that threatens to trap her at every turn. When she falls in love with Baoyu, the family's brilliant, unpredictable heir, she finds the forces of the family and convention arrayed against her, and must risk everything to follow her heart. Based on the epic Dream of the Red Chamber—one of the most famous love stories in Chinese literature—this novel recasts a timeless tale for Western audiences to discover.
Author : Anthony C. Yu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691090139
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Rereading the Stone written by Anthony C. Yu and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth-century Hongloumeng, known in English as Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone, is generally considered to be the greatest of Chinese novels--one that masterfully blends realism and romance, psychological motivation and fate, daily life and mythical occurrences, as it narrates the decline of a powerful Chinese family. In this path-breaking study, Anthony Yu goes beyond the customary view of Hongloumeng as a vivid reflection of late imperial Chinese culture by examining the novel as a story about fictive representation. Through a maze of literary devices, the novel challenges the authority of history as well as referential biases in reading. At the heart of Hongloumeng, Yu argues, is the narration of desire. Desire appears in this tale as the defining trait and problem of human beings and at the same time shapes the novel's literary invention and effect. According to Yu, this focalizing treatment of desire may well be Hongloumeng's most distinctive accomplishment. Through close readings of selected episodes, Yu analyzes principal motifs of the narrative, such as dream, mirror, literature, religious enlightenment, and rhetorical reflexivity in relation to fictive representation. He contextualizes his discussions with a comprehensive genealogy of qing--desire, disposition, sentiment, feeling--a concept of fundamental importance in historical Chinese culture, and shows how the text ingeniously exploits its multiple meanings. Spanning a wide range of comparative literary sources, Yu creates a new conceptual framework in which to reevaluate this masterpiece.
Author : Zhou Kexi
Publisher : Shanghai Press
ISBN 13 : 9781602200043
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Dream of Red Mansions written by Zhou Kexi and published by Shanghai Press. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exquisite edition of A Dream of Red Mansions features a rare set of Qing Dynasty paintings by Sun Wen. This collector's edition features a complete set of Sun Wen's 230 paintings in splendid color, printed on fine paper. Condensed text from the original novel accompanies each of the paintings and offers a wonderful insight and a brief summary of each of the 120 chapters. This rare edition will be a keepsake for many generations, and is perfect for gift-giving and presentations. The original paintings are presently preserved in Lvshun Museum, Dalian, China.
Author : Jing Sun
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472054864
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Red Chamber, World Dream written by Jing Sun and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese president Xi Jinping is most famously associated with his “Chinese Dream” campaign, envisioning a great rejuvenation of the nation. Many observers, though, view China’s pursuit of this dream as alarming. They see a global power ready to abandon its low-profile diplomacy and eager to throw its weight around. Red Chamber, World Dream represents an interdisciplinary effort of deciphering the Chinese Dream and its global impact. Jing Sun employs methods from political science and journalism and concepts from literature, sociology, psychology and drama studies, to offer a multilevel analysis of various actors’ roles in Chinese foreign policy making: the leaders, the bureaucrats, and its increasingly diversified public. This book rejects a simple dichotomy of an omnipotent, authoritarian state versus a suppressed society. Instead, it examines how Chinese foreign policy is constantly being forged and contested by interactions among its leaders, bureaucrats, and people. The competition for shaping China’s foreign policy also happens on multiple arenas: intraparty fighting, inter-ministerial feuding, social media, TV dramas and movies, among others. This book presents vast amounts of historical detail, many unearthed the first time in the English language. Meanwhile, it also examines China’s diplomatic responses to ongoing issues like the Covid-19 crisis. The result is a study multidisciplinary in nature, rich in historical nuance, and timely in contemporary significance.
Author : Jeannie Jinsheng Yi
Publisher : Homa & Sekey Books
ISBN 13 : 0966542177
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (665 download)
Download or read book The Dream of the Red Chamber written by Jeannie Jinsheng Yi and published by Homa & Sekey Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK DESCRIPTION Although dreams have been studied in great depth about this most influential classic Chinese fiction, the study of all the dreams as a sequence and in relation to their structural functions in the allegory is undertaken for the first time in this book. Major topics include: Dream Sequence as the Narrative Framework; The Co-existence of Dream and Reality; Discourse on Love: Daguanyuan and Its Literary Lineage; Medieval Allegory: Its Origin and Its Representation; Dream as Representation of Allegory: The Roman de la Rose and Honglou meng. THE AUTHOR Jeannie Jinsheng Yi earned her Ph.D. degree in Asian Studies from Washington University. Author of several books in both English and Chinese, she has been writing extensively on topics related to China and Asia.
Author : Cao Xue Qin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Stone, Or the Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1 written by Cao Xue Qin and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dream of the Red Chamber, also called The Story of the Stone, or Hongloumeng (simplified Chinese: 红楼梦; traditional Chinese: 紅樓夢; pinyin: Hónglóumèng), composed by Cao Xueqin, is one of China's Four Great Classical Novels. It was written some time in the middle of the 18th century during the Qing dynasty. Long considered a masterpiece of Chinese literature, the novel is generally acknowledged to be one of the pinnacles of Chinese fiction. "Redology" is the field of study devoted exclusively to this work.The title has also been translated as Red Chamber Dream and A Dream of Red Mansions. The novel circulated in manuscript copies with various titles until its print publication, in 1791. Gao E, who prepared the first and second printed editions with his partner Cheng Weiyuan (程偉元) in 1791-92, added 40 additional chapters to complete the novel.
Author : Edwards
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004482717
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Men and Women in Qing China written by Edwards and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men and Women in Qing China is an analysis of Chinese prescriptions of gender as represented in Cao Xueqin's famous eighteenth century Chinese novel of manners, The Red Chamber Dream or The Story of the Stone. Drawing on feminist literary critical methods it examines Qing notions of masculinity and femininity, including themes such as bisexuality, motherhood, virginity and purity, and gender and power. Its central aim is to challenge the common assumption that the novel represents some form of early Chinese feminism by examining the text in conjunction with historical data. The book will be especially important to those interested in issues of gender in China, the history of Chinese literary criticism and the application of feminist theory to the Asian text.
Author : Qiancheng Li
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824825973
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Fictions of Enlightenment written by Qiancheng Li and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-12-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictions of Enlightenment is the first book to examine the fascinating and intricate relationship between Buddhism and the development of Chinese vernacular fiction. Qiancheng Li brings Buddhist models to bear on the vision, structure, and narrative form of three classics of late imperial literature—Journey to the West, Tower of Myriad Mirrors, and Dream of the Red Chamber—arguing that by fashioning their plots after the narratives of certain Mahāyāna sutras, the novelists transformed Buddhist concepts into narrative structures. Within the traditional Chinese novel Li even defines a new genre: the fiction of enlightenment.
Author : Andrew H. Plaks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400870720
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Archetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber written by Andrew H. Plaks and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprisingly little has been written in Western languages about the eighteenth- century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, perhaps the supreme masterpiece of its entire tradition. In this study, Andrew H. Plaks has used the conceptual tools of comparative literature to focus on the novel's allegorical elements and narrative structure. He thereby succeeds in accounting for the work's greatness in terms that do justice to its own narrative tradition and as well to recent advances in general literary theory. A close textual reading of the novel leads to discussion of a wide range of topics: ancient Chinese mythology, Chinese garden aesthetics, and the logic of alternation and recurrence. The detailed study of European allegorical texts clarifies the directions taken by comparable works of Chinese literature, and the critical tool of the literary archetype helps to locate the novel within the Chinese narrative tradition from ancient mythology to the more recent "novel" form. Professor Plaks' innovative use of traditional criticism suggests the levels of meaning the eighteenth-century author might have expected to convey to his immediate audience. This book provides not only an illuminating analysis of this important novel, but also a significant demonstration that critical concepts derived primarily from Western literary models may be fruitfully applied to Chinese narrative works. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Cao Xueqin
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141935162
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days written by Cao Xueqin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of the Stone (c.1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first part of the story, The Golden Days, begins the tale of Bao-yu, a gentle young boy who prefers girls to Confucian studies, and his two cousins: Bao-chai, his parents' choice of a wife for him, and the ethereal beauty Dai-yu. Through the changing fortunes of the Jia family, this rich, magical work sets worldly events - love affairs, sibling rivalries, political intrigues, even murder - within the context of the Buddhist understanding that earthly existence is an illusion and karma determines the shape of our lives.
Author : Andrew Schonebaum
Publisher : Modern Language Association of America
ISBN 13 : 9781603291118
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Approaches to Teaching The Story of the Stone (Dream of the Red Chamber) written by Andrew Schonebaum and published by Modern Language Association of America. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of the Stone (or Dream of the Red Chamber), a Chinese novel by Cao Xueqin and continued by Gao E, tells of an amazing garden, of a young man's choice between two beautiful women, of his journey toward enlightenment, and of the moral and financial decline of a powerful family. Published in 1792, it depicts virtually every facet of life in eighteenth-century China—and has influenced culture in China ever since.Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," provides information and resources that will help teachers and students begin and pursue their study of Stone. The essays that constitute part 2, "Approaches," introduce major topics to be covered in the classroom: Chinese religion, medicine, history, traditions of poetry, material culture, sexual mores, servants; Stone in film and on television; and the formidable challenges of translation into English that were faced by David Hawkes and then by John Minford.
Author : Kin-Ming Liu
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9881604621
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (816 download)
Download or read book My First Trip to China written by Kin-Ming Liu and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty leading China experts—ranging from Perry Link, Andrew Nathan and Jonathan Mirsky to W. J. F. Jenner, Lois Wheeler Snow and Morton Abramowitz—recount their first visits to China, recalling their initial observations and impressions. Most first traveled to China when it was still closed to the world, or was just beginning to open. Their subsequent opinions, writings and policies have shaped the Western relationship with China for more than a generation. This is essential reading for those who want to understand the evolution of Western attitudes toward modern China. At the same time, this collection provides a vivid, personal window onto a fascinating period in Chinese history. “To collect the stories of first encounters with China was a brilliant idea. Not only do we get the benefit of many fascinating insights (and hindsights) from a range of foreigners and overseas Chinese, but these deftly edited views from the outside make up one great story: the history of Communist China. More than a history of one damned thing happening after another, however, this is a history of perceptions, lies, myths and revelations, as much about China as her rulers wish it to be seen, as about those who chose to see China, more and sometimes less clearly, over the last half century.” —Ian Buruma, author of Bad Elements “The opening of China to the world, and then of the world to China, is one of modern history’s most consequential stories. That story is told in a fresh, innovative fashion in this insightful collection of personal experiences related by a distinguished collection of historians, diplomats, journalists, political writers and others who ventured behind the Bamboo Curtain early on. Leading the way are disillusioned leftists stunned by the horrors of the Cultural Revolution and Mao’s Great Leap Forward that they discover. They gradually give way to knowing observers of a tumultuous society determined to become once again a world power. Their accounts form an impressionistic vision of epochal change taking place on the gallop.” —Jim Hoagland, contributing editor, The Washington Post “This is a wistful and absorbing volume, and a fitting remembrance for all of us who once thought that China was going to be easy to study.” —Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for Modern China
Author : Jing Wang
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822311959
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (119 download)
Download or read book The Story of Stone written by Jing Wang and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition--all concerning stones endowed with magical properties--Jing Wang develops a monumental reconstruction of ancient Chinese stone lore. Wang's thorough and systematic comparison of these classic works illuminates the various tellings of the stone story and provides new insight into major topics in traditional Chinese literature. Bringing together Chinese myth, religion, folklore, art, and literature, this book is the first in any language to amass the sources of stone myth and stone lore in Chinese culture. Uniting classical Chinese studies with contemporary Western theoretical concerns, Wang examines these stone narratives by analyzing intertextuality within Chinese traditions. She offers revelatory interpretations to long-standing critical issues, such as the paradoxical character of the monkey in The Journey to the West, the circularity of narrative logic in The Dream of the Red Chamber, and the structural necessity of the stone tablet in Water Margin. By both challenging and incorporating traditional sinological scholarship, Wang's The Story of Stone reveals the ideological ramifications of these three literary works on Chinese cultural history and makes the past relevant to contemporary intellectual discourse. Specialists in Chinese literature and culture, comparative literature, literary theory, and religious studies will find much of interest in this outstanding work, which is sure to become a standard reference on the subject.
