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Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor - A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection (Hardcover)
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Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor - A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection (Hardcover)
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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 that readers confront the pretense that may lurk behind
moralistic stances. Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor presents all
twelve stories in English translation along with notes from the
original commentator, as well as a helpful introduction and
analysis of individual stories.
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