Yangzhou, A Place in Literature : : The Local in Chinese Cultural History / / ed. by Roland Altenburger, Margaret B. Wan, Vibeke Børdahl.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2015
• MitwirkendeR: Altenburger, Roland,; Breuer, Rüdiger,; Børdahl, Vibeke,; Finnane, Antonia,; Hanan, Patrick,; Hardie, Alison,; Ji, Jiang,; Kafalas, Philip A.,; Kuzay, Stefan,; Lai Chan, Winnie Yuen,; Mackerras, Colin,; Mark, Lindy Li,; Matteini, Michele,; Olivová, Lucie,; Wan, Margaret B.,; Winter, Marc,; Xiong, Fan,; Zhen, Liu,; Zhuang, Sue,
• HerausgeberIn: Altenburger, Roland,; Børdahl, Vibeke,; Wan, Margaret B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (528 p.)

One of the famous canal cities of the world and a former center of culture, trade, transportation, and fashion, the old town of Yangzhou evokes romantic bridges, beautiful courtesans, fine gardens, and eccentric painters. It is also remembered as a war-torn ruin after the Qing conquest and the Taiping Rebellion, and as a city in decline as trade shifted to seaports and railways. Yangzhou, A Place in Literature, the first anthology to center on a Chinese city and its local region, offers a wealth of literary, semi-literary, and oral texts representing social life over three hundred years of dramatic change between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries.The selections in this volume represent a wide range of literary forms and styles, both elite and popular, with subjects ranging from literature, history, theater, and art to the history of architecture and gardening, and of material culture at large. Readers will come across rarely found details of everyday life, the sights, smells, and sounds of the lanes and teahouses, a world of taverns, pilgrimages, communal baths, fish markets, salt merchants, acting troupes, and food in one of the wealthiest cities of imperial China. Each text has an introductory essay and rich textual notes by an expert in the relevant field. The general introduction provides an in-depth discussion of the roles of the local in historical, cultural, literary, and linguistic terms, as mirrored by the wide range of translated sources collected in this volume. The selected texts are historically and intellectually important in their own right, but the volume greatly enhances their collective value by combining them, arranging them in historical sequence, and providing a dense network of cross-references that invite comparisons and reveal contrasts in style, form, focus, and topic. With its compelling accounts of material culture, urban spaces, entertainment, and gender, Yangzhou, A Place in Literature will fascinate scholars and students alike by opening a window to the rich cultural history of Yangzhou. The volume can serve as a textbook for courses on traditional and modern Chinese literature, popular culture, the city, or social history. It will be of great interest to scholars of East Asian studies, as well as to those in a variety of comparative fields, such as urban studies, theater studies, and gender studies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Note on Translation -- Yangzhou and the Local in Chinese Literature. An Introduction -- 1 Revisiting a Dream in a Classic Late- Ming Garden. Zheng Yuanxun’s “Personal Record of the Garden of Shadows” (Yingyuan zi ji, 1637) -- 2 Storyteller and Adviser Wu Weiye’s “Biography of Liu Jingting” (Liu Jingting zhuan, 1647) -- 3 Society and Performance in Late- Ming Yangzhou Four Essays from Zhang Dai’s Dream Reminiscences of Tao‘an (Tao‘an mengyi, 1670s) -- 4 The Moral Panorama of One Place Shi Chengjin’s Series of Vignettes Recent Stories of Yangzhou (Yangzhou jinshi, prefaces 1726/1729) -- 5 The Universe in a Nutshell Wang Zhong’s Essay “Dialogue about Guangling” (Guangling dui, 1787) -- 6 The Golden Age Depictions of Life in Yangzhou in Li Dou’s The Plea sure Boats of Yangzhou (Yangzhou huafang lu, 1795) -- 7 Building and Gardening Practices in Eighteenth- Century Yangzhou The View from Li Dou’s The Plea sure Boats of Yangzhou (Yangzhou huafang lu, 1795) -- 8 Observations of a Changing World Lin Sumen’s Bamboo- Branch- Style Songs Three Hundred Poems of Hanjiang (Hanjiang sanbai yin, 1808) -- 9 Regional Fiction Clear Wind Sluice (Qingfengzha, 1819) -- 10 Theater for the People in the Yangzhou Region Jiao Xun’s Peasant Chats on Pop u lar Local Theater (Huabu nongtan, 1819) -- 11 Writing about Things in the Nineteenth Century Scholar Zhou’s Dream of Yangzhou (Yangzhou meng, 1850s) -- 12 A Yangzhou Novel Hanshang Mengren’s Dream of Romance (Fengyue meng, preface 1848) -- 13 Place and Personality Ling Xia’s “Song of the Eight Eccentrics” (Yangzhou ba guai ge, ca. 1897) -- 14 A Tale of Five Families between Empire and Republic Li Hanqiu’s Novel The Tides of Guangling (Guangling chao, 1909– 1919) -- 15 Food and Local Place Zhu Ziqing’s Essay “Speaking of Yangzhou” (Shuo Yangzhou, 1934) -- 16 Transformations of Local Theater. The Yangzhou Opera Taking Command at Age One Hundred (Bai sui gua shuai, 1952– 1958) -- 17 A Critical View of the Yangzhou Dream Feng Zikai’s Essay “The Yangzhou Dream” (Yangzhou meng, 1958) -- 18 Layers of the Local in Yangzhou Storytelling Wang Shaotang Performs “Wu Song Fights the Tiger” (Wu Song da hu, 1961) -- 19 A Chapter in Chinese Women’s History Wei Minghua’s Essay “The Thin Horses of Yangzhou” (Yangzhou shouma, 1983) -- 20 Yangzhou Village Theater The Play Pi Fifth Celebrates New Year (Pi Wu guo nian, 1999) in Wei Ren’s Redaction -- Glossary -- References -- Contributors -- Index