Author: Rolf Homann
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004047655
Category : Longevity
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Homann
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004669507
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 119

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Author: Victor H. Mair
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684170044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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This is the most comprehensive study of pien-wen (“transformation texts” i.e., tales of metamorphosis) in any language since the manuscripts were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century in a remote cave complex in northwest China. They are the earliest written vernacular narratives in China and are thus extremely important in the history of Chinese language and literature. Numerous scholarly controversies have surrounded the study of the texts in the last three quarters of a century; this volume seeks to resolve some of them—the extent, origins, and formal characteristics of the texts, the meaning of pien wen, the identity of the authors who composed these popular narratives and the scribes who copied them, the relationship of the texts to oral performance, and the reasons for the apparently sudden demise of the genre around the beginning of the Sung dynasty. This is a multi-disciplinary study that integrates findings from religious, literary, linguistic, sociological, and historical materials, carried out with intellectual rigor. It includes an extensive bibliography of relevant sources in many languages.

Author: Fansen Wang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521480515
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Wang's biography of Fu Ssu-nien examines Fu's important role in modern China's intellectual development.

Author: William H. Nienhauser
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253334565
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 604

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""A vertitable feast of concise, useful, reliable, and up-to-dateinformation (all prepared by top scholars in the field), Nienhauser's now two-volumetitle stands alone as THE standard reference work for the study of traditionalChinese literature. Nothing like it has ever been published."" --Choice The second volume to The Indiana Companion to TraditionalChinese Literature is both a supplement and an update to the original volume. VolumeII includes over 60 new entries on famous writers, works, and genres of traditionalChinese literature, followed by an extensive bibliographic update (1985-1997) ofeditions, translations, and studies (primarily in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and German) for the 500+ entries of Volume I.

Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 690

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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Author: Association for Asian Studies. Ming Biographical History Project Committee
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231038331
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 762

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Based largely upon original Ming documents, the Dictionary explores the lives of nearly 650 representative figures, both Chinese and foreign, who influenced the course of almost three hundred years of Chinese history. The articles span all classes, professions, and fields of endeavor, from emperors to artists, soldiers to missionaries, concubines, physicians, and pirates.

Author: East-West Center. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East and West
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Author: Dore Jesse Levy
Publisher: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Chinese Narrative Poetry brings a new perspective to some of China's best-loved and most influential poems, including Ts'ai Yen's "Poem of Affliction," Po Chu-yi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow," and Wei Chuang's recently discovered "Song of the Lady of Ch'in." Composed in the shih form during the Late Han, Six Dynasties, and T'ang periods, these poems stand out as masterworks of narrative art. Yet paradoxically, their narrative qualities have been little recognized or explored in either traditional Chinese or modern Western scholarship. The reason for this neglect is that Western literary traditions acknowledge their origins in epic poetry and thus take narrative for granted, but the Chinese tradition is fundametally based on lyric and does not admit of a separate category for narrative poetry. Drawing on both classical Chinese critical works and the most recent Western contributions to the theory of narrative, Levy shows how narrative elements developed out of the lyrical conventions of shih. In doing so, she accomplishes a double purpose, guiding the modern reader to an understanding of the nature of narrative in Chinese poetry and shedding light on the ways in which Chinese poets adapted the devises of lyric to the needs of a completely different expressive mode. Students of Chinese literature will welcome this pathbreaking study, but Chinese Narrative Poetry will interest other scholars as well because it addresses questions of crucial importance for literary theory and comparative literature, particularly the central issue of the applicability of Western critical concepts to non-Western literature and culture.

Author: William Wadsworth
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664159908
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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