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The Resurrected Skeleton - From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun (Hardcover)
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The Resurrected Skeleton - From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun (Hardcover)
Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
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The early Chinese text Master Zhuang (Zhuangzi) is well known for
its relativistic philosophy and colorful anecdotes. In the work,
Zhuang Zhou ca. 300 B.C.E.) dreams that he is a butterfly and
wonders, upon awaking, if he in fact dreamed that he was a
butterfly or if the butterfly is now dreaming that it is Zhuang
Zhou. The text also recounts Master Zhuang's encounter with a
skull, which praises the pleasures of death over the toil of
living. This anecdote became popular with Chinese poets of the
second and third century C.E. and found renewed significance with
the founders of Quanzhen Daoism in the twelfth century. The
Quanzhen masters transformed the skull into a skeleton and treated
the object as a metonym for death and a symbol of the refusal of
enlightenment. Later preachers made further revisions, adding
Master Zhuang's resurrection of the skeleton, a series of
accusations made by the skeleton against the philosopher, and the
enlightenment of the magistrate who judges their case. The legend
of the skeleton was widely popular throughout the Ming dynasty
(1368-1644), and the fiction writer Lu Xun (1881-1936) reimagined
it in the modern era. The first book in English to trace the
development of the legend and its relationship to centuries of
change in Chinese philosophy and culture, The Resurrected Skeleton
translates and contextualizes the story's major adaptations and
draws parallels with the Muslim legend of Jesus's encounter with a
skull and the European tradition of the Dance of Death. Translated
works include versions of the legend in the form of popular ballads
and plays, together with Lu Xun's short story of the 1930s,
underlining the continuity between traditional and modern Chinese
culture.
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