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Book Synopsis Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 4 by : Pu Songling
Download or read book Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 4 written by Pu Songling and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales.This is volume 4 of 6.
Book Synopsis The Tower of Myriad Mirrors by : Yueh Tung
Download or read book The Tower of Myriad Mirrors written by Yueh Tung and published by U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s most outrageous character—the magical Monkey who battles a hundred monsters—returns to the fray in this seventeenth-century sequel to the Buddhist novel Journey to the West. In The Tower of Myriad Mirrors, he defends his claim to enlightenment against a villain who induces hallucinations that take Monkey into the past, to heaven and hell, and even through a sex change. The villain turns out to be the personification of his own desires, aroused by his penetration of a female adversary’s body in Journey to the West. The Tower of Myriad Mirrors is the only novel of Tung Yüeh (1620–1686), a monk and Confucian scholar. Tung picks up the slapstick of the original tale and overlays it with Buddhist theory and bitter satire of the Ming government’s capitulation to the Manchus. After a nod to Journey’s storyteller format, Tung carries Monkey’s quest into an evocation of shifting psychological states rarely found in premodern fiction. An important though relatively unknown link in the development of the Chinese novel, and a window into late Ming intellectual history, The Tower of Myriad Mirrors further rewards by being a wonderful read.
Book Synopsis Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 1 by : Pu Songling
Download or read book Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 1 written by Pu Songling and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales. This is the first of 6 volumes.
Book Synopsis Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 2 by : Pu Songling
Download or read book Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 2 written by Pu Songling and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales. This is the second of 6 volumes.
Book Synopsis Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 5 by : Pu Songling
Download or read book Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 5 written by Pu Songling and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales.This is volume 5 of 6.
Book Synopsis Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 6 by : Pu Songling
Download or read book Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 6 written by Pu Songling and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales. This is the sixth of 6 volumes.
Book Synopsis Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 3 by : Pu Songling
Download or read book Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 3 written by Pu Songling and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The subjects of Pu Songling's short story collection include supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhism and Daoism, and Chinese folklore"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Historian of the Strange by : Judith T. Zeitlin
Download or read book Historian of the Strange written by Judith T. Zeitlin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.
Book Synopsis Strange Tales from Liaozhai by : Songling Pu
Download or read book Strange Tales from Liaozhai written by Songling Pu and published by . This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The subjects of Pu Songling's short story collection include supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhism and Daoism, and Chinese folklore"--
Book Synopsis Strange Tales from Edo by : William D. Fleming
Download or read book Strange Tales from Edo written by William D. Fleming and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-09-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Strange Tales from Edo, William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan’s engagement with Chinese fiction in the early modern period (1600–1868). Large-scale analyses of the full historical and bibliographical record—the first of their kind—document in detail the wholesale importation of Chinese fiction, the market for imported books and domestic reprint editions, and the critical role of manuscript practices—the ascendance of print culture notwithstanding—in the circulation of Chinese texts among Japanese readers and writers. Bringing this big picture to life, Fleming also traces the journey of a text rarely mentioned in studies of early modern Japanese literature: Pu Songling’s Liaozhai zhiyi (Strange Tales from Liaozhai Studio). An immediate favorite of readers on the continent, Liaozhai was long thought to have been virtually unknown in Japan until the modern period. Copies were imported in vanishingly small numbers, and the collection was never reprinted domestically. Yet beneath this surface of apparent neglect lies a rich hidden history of engagement and rewriting—hand-copying, annotation, criticism, translation, and adaptation—that opens up new perspectives on both the Chinese strange tale and its Japanese counterparts.
Book Synopsis Chinese Short Stories 9 by : Sk Mishra
Download or read book Chinese Short Stories 9 written by Sk Mishra and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost Stories, Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio (聊斋志异, Liao Zhai Zhi Yi), is a collection of classical Chinese short stories inspired by the work of Pu Songling (蒲松龄), a renowned Qing Dynasty (清朝) novelist. These stories expose the darkness of feudal society, attack the decay of the imperial examination system and resist the shackles of feudal ethics and education. The original work of Pu Songling contains total 491 (divided into 24 volumes) short stories and have rich and profound ideological content of Chinese culture. The stories often depict the theme of love. Some of these tales express ideal romance and love between supernatural ghosts and human beings. Kindle Edition: www.amazon.com/dp/B0874QBK2G Paperback Edition: www.amazon.com/dp/B0874KYK1V The book has 4 chapters in the following order: Chapter 1: Wall Painting (第一章：画壁) Chapter 2: Bai Qiulian (第二章：白秋练) Chapter 3: Liancheng (第三章：连城) Chapter 4: Eunuch (第四章：宦娘) The current book volume, Chinese Short Stories 9, is a Level 1 Chinese reading practice book. It would introduce you to the famous Chinese story, Ghost Stories: Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio (蒲松龄著文言短篇小说集), a popular literary treasure from China's imperial past. The 9th volume in the Selected Chinese Short Story Series (中国短篇小说精选) includes both the Chinese text (simplified characters) and pinyin Romanization. With about over 500 unique Chinese characters, the volume would be suitable for the beginners, lower intermediate and advanced level Chinese language learners (HSK 1-6). Overall, the reading series offers you a variety of elementary level books (Level 1/2/3/4/5/6) to understand China as well as practice Chinese reading fast. More books are available on the author's homepage: https: //amzn.to/2ZnR4cg
Book Synopsis Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences by : Dr. Penny Sartori
Download or read book Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences written by Dr. Penny Sartori and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a 5-year clinical study of near-death experiences, a doctor presents riveting patient stories to explore how NDEs can empower us and society as a whole. By trying to pathologize NDEs, are we missing out on what they can tell us about life? Dr. Penny Sartori is a registered nurse who began researching Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) in 1995 after one of her long-term intensive care patients begged her to let him die in peace. Inspired by this encounter, she went on to research NDEs in a PhD program, where she learned profound spiritual lessons and made startling discoveries that she now shares in The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences. During her academic work, Dr. Sartori studied three samples of ICU patients during a five-year period. Here, she recounts the eye-opening stories of those patients who experienced NDEs and out-of-body experiences (OBEs). In one group, as many as 18% of patients experienced an NDE—though Patient #10 stood out among the others. After being unresponsive, he awoke to report he had experienced an OBE. He was able to describe what happened in the hospital room while he was unconscious and claimed he met not only his deceased father but a Jesus-like figure. Most shocking of all, he had regained the use of his hand—which had been paralyzed since birth. When talking about the biggest takeaways from her research, Dr. Sartori shares how her findings have made her question the common belief that the brain gives rise to consciousness. Most importantly, she has gained a deeper appreciation for death—an experience she now views with less fear and anxiety. In addition to detailing dozens of case studies, The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences also discusses childhood NDEs, the differences in NDEs among different cultures, and the after-effects of NDEs.
Book Synopsis Selections from strange tales from the Liaozhai studio by : Sung-ling P'u
Download or read book Selections from strange tales from the Liaozhai studio written by Sung-ling P'u and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio by : Pu Songling
Download or read book Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio written by Pu Songling and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio is a famous collection of about 500 short stories by Pu Songling (1640 - 1715), a writer of the Qing Dynasty. Fifty-one stories are selected for this English edition. These stories cover a wide range of subjects, such as werefoxes and fish spirits and ghosts and monsters that are personified. Like human beings, they have feelings of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, love and hatred as well as happiness and discontent. These mystical stories reflect the social life of the time in which they were written. Living under a feudal monarchy, the writer had to criticize the unfairness of the feudal system and express his indignation by writing of fox spirits and monsters. Although most of these stories are progressive and written with a critical slant, some of them still have ideas of feudal superstition and fatalism. The stories in Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio are written in simple and straightforward language, but they are highly structured with complicated plots that often employ the technique of combining illusion with reality. Some of these stories are based on popular folk legends and thus have a plain, folksy style. The ideological and artistic achievements of Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio have greatly influenced later novels and operas.
Book Synopsis Cultural Imprints by : Elizabeth Oyler
Download or read book Cultural Imprints written by Elizabeth Oyler and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Imprints draws on literary works, artifacts, performing arts, and documents that were created by or about the samurai to examine individual "imprints," traces holding specifically grounded historical meanings that persist through time. The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume assess those imprints for what they can suggest about how thinkers, writers, artists, performers, and samurai themselves viewed warfare and its lingering impact at various points during the "samurai age," the long period from the establishment of the first shogunate in the twelfth century through the fall of the Tokugawa in 1868. The range of methodologies and materials discussed in Cultural Imprints challenges a uniform notion of warrior activity and sensibilities, breaking down an ahistorical, monolithic image of the samurai that developed late in the samurai age and that persists today. Highlighting the memory of warfare and its centrality in the cultural realm, Cultural Imprints demonstrates the warrior's far-reaching, enduring, and varied cultural influence across centuries of Japanese history. Contributors: Monica Bethe, William Fleming, Andrew Goble, Thomas Hare, Luke Roberts, Marimi Tateno, Alison Tokita, Elizabeth Oyler, Katherine Saltzman-Li
Download or read book Water Margin written by Nai'an Shi and published by Asiapac Books Pte Ltd. This book was released on 1999 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Role of Henri Borel in Chinese Translation History by : Audrey Heijns
Download or read book The Role of Henri Borel in Chinese Translation History written by Audrey Heijns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the historical background of Chinese translation in the West and the emergence of several prominent European translators of China, this book examines the role of a translator in terms of cross-cultural communication, the image of the foreign culture in the minds of the target audience, and the influence of their translations on the target culture. With the focus on the career and output of the Dutch translator Henri Borel (1869–1933), this study investigates different aspects of the role of translator. The investigation is carried out by analysing texts and probing the achievements and contributions of the translator, underpinned by documents from the National Archives and the Literature Museum in the Hague, the Netherlands. Based on the findings derived from this study, advice is offered to those now involved in the promotion and translation of Chinese culture and literature. It will make an important contribution to the burgeoning history of Chinese translation. This book will be of interest to anyone with an interest or background in the translation history of China, the history of sinology in the West, and the role of translators.
