Stories to Awaken the World
A Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 3
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Yang, Yunqin (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-295-80071-4
- EAN: 9780295800714
- Produktnummer: 36233137
- Verlag: University of Washington Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 992 S.
- Plattform: PDF
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Feng Menglong (1574-1646), the most knowledgeable connoisseur of Chinese popular literature of his time, is best known for his three collections of vernacular stories, now commonly known as the Sanyan. Shuhui Yang is professor of Chinese at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. Yunqin Yang is a simultaneous interpreter in the United Nations Secretariat. Together, they translated Feng's Stories Old and New (Gujin xiaoshuo) and Stories to Caution the World (Jingshi tongyan).
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