Slapping the Table in Amazement (eBook)

A Ming Dynasty Story Collection

Mengchu Ling (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
928 Seiten
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-74214-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Slapping the Table in Amazement is the unabridged English translation of the famous story collection Paian jingqi by Ling Mengchu (15801644), originally published in 1628. The forty lively stories gathered here present a broad picture of traditional Chinese society and include characters from all social levels. We learn of their joys and sorrows, their views about life and death, and their visions of the underworld and the supernatural.Ling was a connoisseur of popular literature and a seminal figure in the development of Chinese literature in the vernacular, which paved the way for the late-imperial Chinese novel. Slapping the Table in Amazement includes translations of verse and prologue stories as well as marginal and interlinear comments.

Autor

Shuhui Yang is professor of Chinese at Bates College. Yunqin Yang is a simultaneous interpreter in the United Nations Secretariat. Together they translated the three-volume set of Ming dynasty stories by Feng Menglong: Stories Old and New, Stories to Caution the World, and Stories to Awaken the World.

Inhalt

Foreword, by Victor H. Mair Acknowledgments Prologue | Mulian Baojuan in Jingjiang Introduction 1. Baojuan about Mulian and Performance Literature 2. The Mulian Story in Chinese Literature 3. An Early Example in Baojuan 4. Sectarian Examples in Dizang Baojuan and Baojuan of Benefiting Living Beings 5. Beliefs and Practices in Sectarian Baojuan 6. Late Examples in Baojuan of Three Rebirths and Precious Account of Mulian 7. The Religious and Performative Context of Late Baojuan about Mulian Conclusion Appendix 1: Major Texts in Chinese Literature Dealing with the Mulian Story Appendix 2: Baojuan Texts Dealing with the Mulian Story Appendix 3: Translation of the First Passage of Baojuan of Maudgaly yana (Manuscript of 1440) Notes Glossary of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Terms Bibliography Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.1.2018
• Einführung: Robert E. Hegel
• Übersetzer: Shuhui Yang, Yunqin Yang
• Verlagsort: Seattle
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-295-74214-3 / 0295742143
• ISBN-13: 978-0-295-74214-4 / 9780295742144