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Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature - Tales and Commentary (Hardcover)
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Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature - Tales and Commentary (Hardcover)
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In literatures worldwide, animal fables have been analyzed for
their revealingly anthropomorphic views, but until now little
attention has been given to the animal tales of China. The complex,
competitive relationship between rodents (vilified as thieves of
grain) and the felines with whom they are perennially at war is
explored in this presentation of Chinese tales about cats and mice.
Master translator Wilt Idema situates them in an overview of animal
tales in world literature, in the Chinese literary tradition as a
whole, and within Chinese imaginative depictions of animals. The
tales demonstrate the animals' symbolism and their unusually
prominent-and verbal-role in the stories. These readings depict
cats and mice in conflict, in marital bonds, and in litigation-most
centrally in a legal case of a mouse against a cat in the
underworld court of King Yama. Many of the stories adopt the
perspective of the mice as animals merely trying to survive, while
also recognizing that cats are natural hunters. This entertaining
volume will appeal to readers interested in Chinese literature and
society, comparative literature, and posthumanist consideration of
human-animal relations.
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