Yangzhou, A Place in Literature : : The Local in Chinese Cultural History /

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

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 Taipi...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (528 p.)
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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

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