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Watered with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and
naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions of ancient
peoples, poems of mourning and texts of lament stand out in
classical Chinese literature as brilliant and unique. Composed and
celebrated over 3000 years, they are central to the Chinese
literary tradition but have been largely unknown to English
readers. Including 100 major pieces by leading literary figures
from 800 BCE - 1800, this is the first English anthology of classic
Chinese poems of mourning and texts of sacrificial orations. With
annotated translations by leading scholars and reading guides
accompanying each piece, this book reveals a powerful literary
heritage to students and serious readers of Chinese literature,
history and civilization.
With commentary and annotations throughout, Ming Dynasty Tales: A
Guided Reader presents for the first time in English 10 key stories
from China's Ming Dynasty era. Casting new light on this
significant period in Chinese literary history, these tales bring
Ming era China vividly to life, from its chaotic beginnings to its
imperial heyday. As well as bearing witness to social change across
the 100-year life of the Yuan Dynasty from 1260 to 1368, these
tales tackle key themes of war and peace and Confucian values of
loyalty, filiality, chastity, and righteousness.
Together with the noted Tang dynasty tales, Song dynasty tales have
long been highly valued and widely read in the Chinese world. As
the first English translations of a selected collection of 12 Song
dynasty tales, this book opens a window into the world of
literature, culture, and the colorful lives of the royal house and
common people in the 10th- to 13th-centuries. In addition to the
translation and meticulous annotations, it offers a general
introduction as well as commentaries on each tale.
This volume is the first complete English rendition of the 45
famous tales in the monumental anthology masterfully selected and
edited by Lu Xun (1881-1936). It is the most distinctive,
authoritative, and influential chuanqi collection thus far, and
many of the pieces are rendered for the first time. This is an
important contribution to the field of Chinese studies in the
English-speaking world.
With commentary and annotations throughout, Ming Dynasty Tales: A
Guided Reader presents for the first time in English 10 key stories
from China's Ming Dynasty era. Casting new light on this
significant period in Chinese literary history, these tales bring
Ming era China vividly to life, from its chaotic beginnings to its
imperial heyday. As well as bearing witness to social change across
the 100-year life of the Yuan Dynasty from 1260 to 1368, these
tales tackle key themes of war and peace and Confucian values of
loyalty, filiality, chastity, and righteousness.
Chinese culture of the Six Dynasties period (220-589) saw a
blossoming of stories of the fantastic. Zhiguai, "records of the
strange" or "accounts of anomalies," tell of encounters with
otherness, in which inexplicable and uncanny phenomena interrupt
mundane human affairs. They depict deities, ghosts, and monsters;
heaven, the underworld, and the immortal lands; omens,
metamorphoses, and trafficking between humans and supernatural
beings; and legendary figures, strange creatures, and natural
wonders in the human world. Hidden and Visible Realms,
traditionally attributed to Liu Yiqing, is one of the most
significant zhiguai collections, distinguished by its varied
contents, elegant writing style, and fascinating stories. It is
also among the earliest collections heavily influenced by Buddhist
beliefs, values, and concerns. Beyond the traditional zhiguai
narratives, it includes tales of karmic retribution, reincarnation,
and Buddhist ghosts, hell, and magic. In this annotated first
complete English translation, Zhenjun Zhang gives English-speaking
readers a sense of the wealth and wonder of the zhiguai canon.
Hidden and Visible Realms opens a window into the lives, customs,
and religious beliefs and practices of early medieval China and the
cultural history of Chinese Buddhism. In the introduction, Zhang
explains the key themes and textual history of the work.
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