Stories to Caution the World
A Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 2
Stories to Caution the World is the first complete translation of Jingshi tongyan, the second of Feng Menglong's three collections of stories which were pivotal in the development of Chinese vernacular fiction. These tales, whose importance in the Chinese literary canon and in world literature is without question, have 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 in their everyday surroundings -- merchants and artisans, prostitutes and courtesans, matchmakers and fortune-tellers, monks and nuns, servants and mai…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-295-80129-2
- EAN: 9780295801292
- Produktnummer: 36027977
- Verlag: University Of Washington Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 792 S.
- Plattform: PDF
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Compiled Feng Menglong. Translated by Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang
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