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Jin Ping Mei English Translations

Author : Lintao Qi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351060813
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Jin Ping Mei English Translations written by Lintao Qi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the English translations and adaptations of the sixteenth century classic Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei. Acclaimed the ‘No.1 Marvellous Book’ of the Ming dynasty, Jin Ping Mei was banned soon after its appearance, due to the inclusion of graphically explicit sexual descriptions. So far there have been more than a dozen English adaptations and translations of the novel. Working within the framework of descriptive translation studies, this book provides a translational history of the English versions of Jin Ping Mei, supported by various paratexts, including book covers, reviews, and archival materials. It also conducts textual comparisons to uncover the translation norms at work in the only two complete renditions, namely The Golden Lotus by Clement Egerton and The Plum in the Golden Vase by David Roy, respectively. The notions of agency, habitus and capital are introduced for the examination of the transference of linguistic, literary and cultural aspects of the two translations. The book represents the first systematic research effort on the English Translations of Jin Ping Mei. Given its pioneering status and interdisciplinary nature, the data, structure and findings of this book will potentially enrich the fields of Translation Studies, Comparative Literature, Chinese Studies, Cultural Studies and Book History.

Obscene Things

Author : Naifei Ding
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822383446
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Obscene Things written by Naifei Ding and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Obscene Things Naifei Ding intervenes in conventional readings of Jin Ping Mei, an early scandalous Chinese novel of sexuality and sexual culture. After first appearing around 1590, Jin Ping Mei was circulated among some of China’s best known writers of the time and subsequently was published in three major recensions. A 1695 version by Zhang Zhupo became the most widely read and it is this text in particular on which Ding focuses. Challenging the preconceptions of earlier scholarship, she highlights the fundamental misogyny inherent in Jin Ping Mei and demonstrates how traditional biases—particularly masculine biases—continue to inform the concerns of modern criticism and sexual politics. The story of a seductive bondmaid-concubine, sexual opportunism, domestic intrigue, adultery and death, Jin Ping Mei has often been critiqued based on the coherence of the text itself. Concentrating instead on the processes of reading and on the social meaning of this novel, Ding looks at the various ways the tale has been received since its first dissemination, particularly by critiquing the interpretations offered by seventeenth-century Ming literati and by twentieth-century scholars. Confronting the gender politics of this “pornographic” text, she troubles the boundaries between premodern and modern readings by engaging residual and emergent Chinese gender and hierarchic ideologies.

Golden Lotus Volume 2

Author : Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462906311
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Golden Lotus Volume 2 written by Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced." --Pearl S. Buck A saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and, famously, Chinese erotica, The Golden Lotus (also known as The Plum in the Golden Vase) has been called the fifth Great Classical Novel in Chinese Literature and one of the Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel. Admired in its own time for its literary qualities and biting indictment of the immorality and cruelty of its age, this Chinese classic has also been denigrated for its sexual frankness. It centers on Ximen Qing, a young, dissolute, and politically connected merchant, and his marriage to a fifth wife, Pan Jinlian, literally "Golden Lotus." In her desire to influence her husband and, through him, control the other wives, concubines, and entire household, she uses sex as her primary weapon. The Golden Lotus lays bare the rivalries within this wealthy family while chronicling its rise and fall. This great work of classic Chinese literature, from an author whose pseudonym means "Scoffing Scholar of Lanling," is a virtuoso collection of voices and vices, mixing in poetry and song. It samples different social registers from popular ballads to the language of bureaucrats to recreate and comment mordantly on the society of the time. Little-known in the west but utterly iconic amongst the Chinese classics in worldly circles, reading The Golden Lotus promises both an astute reflection on human tendencies and a sumptuous, intoxicating take on Chinese erotica. This new edition: Features a superb new introduction by Robert Hegel of Washington University, who explains its importance as the first single-authored novel in the Chinese tradition Contains the complete, unexpurgated text as translated by Clement Egerton with the assistance of Shu Qingchun (later known as Lao She, one of the most prominent Chinese writers of the twentieth century) Ensures translation has been pinyinized and corrected for this new edition

Jin Ping Mei

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Publisher : Ingram
ISBN 13 : 9781596546806
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Jin Ping Mei written by and published by Ingram. This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Jin Ping Mei and the Non-linear Dimensions of the Traditional Chinese Novel

Author : Peter Halliday Rushton
Publisher : Bmellen University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Jin Ping Mei and the Non-linear Dimensions of the Traditional Chinese Novel written by Peter Halliday Rushton and published by Bmellen University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Give Me Your Heart

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547385463
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Give Me Your Heart written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A latest collection of macabre tales by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys includes "Strip Poker," in which a reckless adolescent girl turns the tables on a group of threatening men; and "Smother!," in which a woman's childhood memories threaten her professor mother.

A Dictionary of Chinese Literature

Author : Taiping Chang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191836183
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Chinese Literature written by Taiping Chang and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Shi jing (Classic of Songs) of the eleventh century BC, to the to the wanglu wenxue (Internet literature) of the twenty-first century, this authoritative dictionary covers key terms relative to the study of Chinese literature, from antiquity to the present day. A-Z entries on key literary figures, trends, schools, movements, and literary collections are included, as well as detailed descriptions of traditional literary works, plays, dramas, stories, novels, and other main literary texts

Jin Ping Mei

Author : Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jin Ping Mei written by Xiaoxiaosheng and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chinese Theories of Fiction

Author : Ming Dong Gu
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 0791481484
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Theories of Fiction written by Ming Dong Gu and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative work, Ming Dong Gu examines Chinese literature and traditional Chinese criticism to construct a distinctly Chinese theory of fiction and places it within the context of international fiction theory. He argues that because Chinese fiction, or xiaoshuo, was produced in a tradition very different from that of the West, it has formed a system of fiction theory that cannot be adequately accounted for by Western fiction theory grounded in mimesis and realism. Through an inquiry into the macrocosm of Chinese fiction, the art of formative works, and theoretical data in fiction commentaries and intellectual thought, Gu explores the conceptual and historical conditions of Chinese fiction in relation to European and world fiction. In the process, Gu critiques and challenges some accepted views of Chinese fiction and provides a theoretical basis for fresh approaches to fiction study in general and Chinese fiction in particular. Such masterpieces as the Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase) and the Hongloumeng (The Story of the Stone) are discussed at length to advance his notion of fiction and fiction theory.

Jin Ping Mei

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Jin Ping Mei written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jin Ping Mei

Author : Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 863 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Jin Ping Mei written by Xiaoxiaosheng and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation

Author : David Der-wei Wang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174147
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation written by David Der-wei Wang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume addresses cultural and literary transformation in the late Ming (1550–1644) and late Qing (1851–1911) eras. Although conventionally associated with a devastating sociopolitical crisis, each of these periods was also a time when Chinese culture was rejuvenated. Focusing on the twin themes of crisis and innovation, the seventeen chapters in this book aim to illuminate the late Ming and late Qing as eras of literary-cultural innovation during periods of imperial disintegration; to analyze linkages between the two periods and the radical heritage they bequeathed to the modern imagination; and to rethink the “premodernity” of the late Ming and late Qing in the context of the end of the age of modernism. The chapters touch on a remarkably wide spectrum of works, some never before discussed in English, such as poetry, drama, full-length novels, short stories, tanci narratives, newspaper articles, miscellanies, sketches, familiar essays, and public and private historical accounts. More important, they intersect on issues ranging from testimony about dynastic decline to the negotiation of authorial subjectivity, from the introduction of cultural technology to the renewal of literary convention."

Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China

Author : Martin W. Huang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684173574
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China written by Martin W. Huang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."

How to Read the Chinese Novel

Author : David L. Rolston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400860474
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book How to Read the Chinese Novel written by David L. Rolston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction criticism has a long and influential history in pre-modern China, where critics would read and reread certain novels with a concentration and fervor far exceeding that which most Western critics give to individual works. This volume, a source book for the study of traditional Chinese fiction criticism from the late sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries, presents translations of writings taken from the commentary editions of six of the most important novels of pre-modern China. These translations consist mainly of tu-fa, or "how-to-read" essays, which demonstrate sensitivity and depth of analysis both in the treatment of general problems concerning the reading of any work of fiction and in more focused discussions of particular compositional details in individual novels. The translations were produced by pioneers in the study of this form of fiction criticism in the West: Shuen-fu Lin, Andrew H. Plaks, David T. Roy, John C. Y. Wang, and Anthony C. Yu. Four introductory essays by Andrew H. Plaks and the editor address the historical background for this type of criticism, its early development, its formal features, recurrent terminology, and major interpretive strategies. A goal of this volume is to aid in the rediscovery of this traditional Chinese poetics of fiction and help eliminate some of the distortions encountered in the past by the imposition of Western theories of fiction on Chinese novels. Originally published in 1990. 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.

The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Four

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691169829
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Four written by and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novel This is the fourth and penultimate volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P’ing Mei is an anonymous sixteenth-century work that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch’ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. The novel, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of the narrative art form—not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a world-historical context. This complete and annotated translation aims to faithfully represent and elucidate all the rhetorical features of the original in its most authentic form and thereby enable the Western reader to appreciate this Chinese masterpiece at its true worth.

The Golden Lotus Volume 2

Author : Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780804841719
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Lotus Volume 2 written by Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced." —Pearl S. Buck A saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and lust, The Golden Lotus (Jin Ping Mei) has been called the fifth Great Classical Novel in Chinese literature and one of the Four Masterworks of the Ming novel. Admired in its own time for its literary qualities and biting indictment of the immorality and cruelty of its age, it has also been denigrated as a "dirty" book for its sexual frankness. It centers on Ximen Qing, a wealthy, young, dissolute, and politically connected merchant, and his marriage to a fifth wife, Pan Jinlian, literally "Golden Lotus." In her desire to influence her husband and, through him, control the other wives, concubines, and entire household, she uses sex as her main weapon. The Golden Lotus lays bare the rivalries within this wealthy family while chronicling its rise and fall. It fields a host of vivid characters, each seeking advantage in a corrupt world. The author of The Golden Lotus is Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, whose name, a pseudonym, means "Scoffing Scholar of Lanling." His great work, written in the late Ming but set in the Song Dynasty, is a virtuoso collection of voices and vices, mixing in poetry and song and sampling different social registers, from popular ballads to the language of bureaucrats, in order to recreate and comment mordantly on the society of the time. This edition features a new introduction by Robert Hegel of Washington University, who situates the novel for contemporary readers and explains its greatness as the first single-authored novel in the Chinese tradition. This translation contains the complete, unexpurgated text as translated by Clement Egerton with the assistance of Shu Qingchun, later known as Lao She, one of the most prominent Chinese writers of the twentieth century. The translation has been pinyinized and corrected.

Tao Yuanming & Manuscript Culture

Author : Xiaofei Tian
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295985534
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Tao Yuanming & Manuscript Culture written by Xiaofei Tian and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As medieval Chinese manuscripts were copied and recopied through the centuries, both mistakes and deliberate editorial changes were introduced. Xiaofei Tian shows how readers not only experience authors but "produce" them by shaping texts to their interpretation, focusing on the evolution over the centuries of the reclusive poet Tao Yuanming into a figure of epic stature.