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Stories to Awaken the World - A Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 3 (Paperback)
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Stories to Awaken the World - A Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 3 (Paperback)
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Stories to Awaken the World, the first complete translation of
Xingshi hengyan, completes the publication in English of the famous
three-volume set of Feng Menglong's popular Chinese-vernacular
stories. These tales, which come from a variety of sources (some
dating back centuries before their compilation in the seventeenth
century), were assembled and circulated by Feng, who not only saved
them from oblivion but raised the status of vernacular literature
and provided material for authors of the great Ming (1368-1644) and
Qing (1644-1911) novels to draw upon. This trilogy has been
compared to Boccaccio's Decameron and the stories of A Thousand and
One Nights. Peopled with scholars, emperors, ministers, generals,
and a gallery of ordinary men and women - merchants and artisans,
prostitutes and courtesans, matchmakers and fortune-tellers, monks
and nuns, thieves and imposters - the stories provide a vivid
panorama of the bustling world of late imperial China. The longest
volume in the Sanyan trilogy, Stories to Awaken the World is
presented in full here, including sexually explicit elements often
omitted from Chinese editions. Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang have
provided a rare treat for English readers: an unparalleled view of
the art of traditional Chinese short fiction. As with the first two
collections in the trilogy, Stories Old and New and Stories to
Caution the World, their excellent renditions of the forty stories
in this collection are eminently readable, accurate, and lively.
They have included all of the poetry that is scattered throughout
the stories, as well as Feng Menglong's interlinear and marginal
comments, which convey the values shared among the Chinese cultural
elite, point out what original readers of the collection were being
asked to appreciate in the writer's art, and reveal Feng's moral
engagement with the social problems of his day. The Yangs's
translations rank among the very finest English versions of Chinese
fiction from any period. For other titles in the collection go to
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/ming.html
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