Carnival in China: A Reading of the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan (China Studies, Vol. 1)
Carnival in China: A Reading of the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan (China Studies, Vol. 1)
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Book Description
As if under the satirical magnifying glass, the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan, an anonymous traditional Chinese novel, portrays local society and provincial life in seventeenth-century China in comic and grotesque close-up. A dystopian satire, the novel provides fascinating insights into the popular culture and wild imagination of men and women in late imperial China.
Using an array of sources-fiction, poetry, texts on medical ethics, religious thought, political and philosophical treatises, morality books and local gazetteers-Carnival in China develops a style of reading that explores how seventeenth-century Chinese citizens perceived their world. Through their eyes, we gain access to their desires, dreams, fears and nightmares.
About the Author
Daria Berg, Ph.D. (1995) in Chinese Literature, University of Oxford, is Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Durham. She has published extensively on traditional Chinese literature, literary theory and modern Chinese fiction (PRC and Taiwan) and is currently involved in research on women, gender and gentility in China.
Carnival in China: A Reading of the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan (China Studies, Vol. 1),Daria Berg,Brill Academic Publishers,9004124268,1640-1715,1640-1715.,Asia - China,Asian - General,General,History,History: World,Interior Design - General,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Pu, Songling,,Xing shi yin yuan
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