Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor
A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection
Written around 1660, the unique Chinese short story collection Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor (Doupeng xianhua), by the author known only as Aina the Layman, uses the seemingly innocuous setting of neighbors swapping yarns on hot summer days under a shady arbor to create a series of stories that embody deep disillusionment with traditional values. The tales, ostensibly told by different narrators, parody heroic legends and explore issues that contributed to the fall of the Ming dynasty a couple of decades before this collection was written, including self-centeredness and social violence. These stories speak to all troubled times, demanding t…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Hegel, Robert E. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-295-99998-2
- EAN: 9780295999982
- Produktnummer: 22606082
- Verlag: University of Washington Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 9'299 KB
- Abbildungen: 4 b&w illus.
Über den Autor
Aina the Layman. With Ziran the Eccentric Wanderer. Edited by Robert E. Hegel
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