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Author : Menglong Feng
Release : 1958
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 318/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Stories from a Ming Collection by : Menglong Feng
Download or read book Stories from a Ming Collection written by Menglong Feng. This book was released on 1958. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A UNESCO collection of 17th century Chinese short stories.
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Release : 2012-09-01
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 712/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Stories to Awaken the World by :
Download or read book Stories to Awaken the World written by . This book was released on 2012-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories to Awaken the World, the first complete translation of Xingshi hengyan, completes the publication in English of the famous three-volume set of Feng Menglong's popular Chinese-vernacular stories. These tales, which come from a variety of sources (some dating back centuries before their compilation in the seventeenth century), were assembled and circulated by Feng, who not only saved them from oblivion but raised the status of vernacular literature and provided material for authors of the great Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) novels to draw upon. This trilogy has been compared to Boccaccio's Decameron and the stories of A Thousand and One Nights. Peopled with scholars, emperors, ministers, generals, and a gallery of ordinary men and women - merchants and artisans, prostitutes and courtesans, matchmakers and fortune-tellers, monks and nuns, thieves and imposters - the stories provide a vivid panorama of the bustling world of late imperial China. The longest volume in the Sanyan trilogy, Stories to Awaken the World is presented in full here, including sexually explicit elements often omitted from Chinese editions. Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang have provided a rare treat for English readers: an unparalleled view of the art of traditional Chinese short fiction. As with the first two collections in the trilogy, Stories Old and New and Stories to Caution the World, their excellent renditions of the forty stories in this collection are eminently readable, accurate, and lively. They have included all of the poetry that is scattered throughout the stories, as well as Feng Menglong's interlinear and marginal comments, which convey the values shared among the Chinese cultural elite, point out what original readers of the collection were being asked to appreciate in the writer's art, and reveal Feng's moral engagement with the social problems of his day. The Yangs's translations rank among the very finest English versions of Chinese fiction from any period. For other titles in the collection go to http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/ming.html
Author : Menglong Feng
Release : 1958
Genre : Short stories, Chinese
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Stories from a Ming Collection by : Menglong Feng
Download or read book Stories from a Ming Collection written by Menglong Feng. This book was released on 1958. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yingyu Zhang
Release : 2017
Genre : HISTORY
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Book Rating : 631/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Book of Swindles by : Yingyu Zhang
Download or read book The Book of Swindles written by Yingyu Zhang. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Swindles, a seventeenth-century story collection, offers a panoramic guide to the art of deception. Ostensibly a manual for self-protection, it presents a tableau of criminal ingenuity in late Ming China. Each story comes with commentary by the author, who expounds a moral lesson while also speaking as a connoisseur of the swindle.
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Release : 2006-05-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 957/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Falling in Love by :
Download or read book Falling in Love written by . This book was released on 2006-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling in love, with all its accompanying problems, was a subject of obsessive interest among writers and readers in the Ming Dynasty, when society held strictly to arranged marriages. The stories in this engaging collection all deal with this theme in very different ways, sometimes comically, sometimes tragically. They portray young people choosing their own lovers, resorting to ingenious stratagems and risky escapades in defiance of contemporary mores. Chosen to represent the best works from the great age of the vernacular story, they offer an admirable introduction to the world of Chinese fiction in this era. All of the stories in Falling in Love have been translated especially for this volume, and most appear here in translation for the first time. They are taken from two works, Constant Words to Awaken the World (Xing shi heng yan) and a related collection, The Rocks Nod Their Heads (Shi dian tou), both published in the early seventeenth century.
