Fictions of Enlightenment : : Journey to the West, Tower of Myriad Mirrors, and Dream of the Red Chamber / / / Qiancheng Li.

• VerfasserIn: Li, Qiancheng,
• Author: Li, Qiancheng,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on Conventions --; Abbreviations --; Prologue --; CHAPTER 1 Setting the Terms --; CHAPTER 2 Soteriological Patterns, Narrative Structures --; CHAPTER 3 The Journey --; CHAPTER 4 The Dream --; CHAPTER 5 The "Red Chamber59 --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824844547
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824844547
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Qiancheng Li.

Fictions of Enlightenment is the first book to examine the fascinating and intricate relationship between Buddhism and the development of Chinese vernacular fiction. Qiancheng Li brings Buddhist models to bear on the vision, structure, and narrative form of three classics of late imperial literature—Journey to the West, Tower of Myriad Mirrors, and Dream of the Red Chamber—arguing that by fashioning their plots after the narratives of certain Mahāyāna sutras, the novelists transformed Buddhist concepts into narrative structures. Within the traditional Chinese novel Li even defines a new genre: the fiction of enlightenment.