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Stories to Caution the World - A Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 2 (Hardcover)
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Stories to Caution the World - A Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 2 (Hardcover)
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Stories to Caution the World is the first complete translation of
Jingshi tongyan, the second of Feng Menglong's three collections of
stories which were pivotal in the development of Chinese vernacular
fiction. These tales, whose importance in the Chinese literary
canon and in world literature is without question, have 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 in their everyday
surroundings -- merchants and artisans, prostitutes and courtesans,
matchmakers and fortune-tellers, monks and nuns, servants and
maids, thieves and imposters -- the stories in this collection
provide a vivid panorama of the bustling world of imperial China
before the end of the Ming dynasty. Feng Menglong collected popular
stories from a variety of sources (some dating back centuries) and
circulated them via the flourishing seventeenth-century publishing
industry. He not only saved them from oblivion but elevated the
status of vernacular literature and provided material for authors
of the great late-Ming and Qing novels to draw upon. As in their
translation of the first collection of Feng's trilogy, Stories Old
and New, Shuhui and Yunqin Yang include all forty stories as well
as Feng's interlinear and marginal comments and all of the verse
woven throughout the stories. For other titles in the collection go
to http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/ming.html
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