Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China / / ed. by Leslie V. Wallace, N. Harry Rothschild.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Barbieri-Low, Anthony J.,; Bibber-Orr, Edwin Van,; Brown, Miranda,; Carlton, Kelly,; Chen, Jinhua,; Fodde-Reguer, Anna-Alexandra,; Goldin, Paul R.,; Henry, Eric,; Knapp, Keith N.,; Leung, Vincent S.,; Rothschild, N. Harry,; Wallace, Leslie V.,; Wang, Hongjie,; Zhang, Cong Ellen,
• HerausgeberIn: Rothschild, N. Harry,; Wallace, Leslie V.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)

Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China presents a rogues' gallery of treacherous regicides, impious monks, cutthroat underlings, ill-bred offspring, and disloyal officials. It plumbs the dark matter of the human condition, placing front and center transgressive individuals and groups tradit...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I. Broken Ties
• 1. There Are Maggots in My Soup!
• 2. Negative Role Models
• 3. Copulating with One's Stepmother-Or Birth Mother?
• 4. Intransigent and Corrupt Officials in Early Imperial China
• Part II. Orthopraxy vs. Heteropraxy
• 5. Rituals without Rules
• 6. Bad Writing
• 7. Wild Youths and Fallen Officials
• 8. Alcoholism and Song Literati
• 9. Flouting, Flashing, and Favoritism
• Part III. Cultures of Bloodshed and Mayhem
• 10. Running Amok in Early Chinese Narrative
• 11. "Wolves Shepherding the People"
• 12. A "Villain-Monk" Brought Down by a Villein-General
• 13. Martial Monks without Borders
• Contributors
• Index
• About the Editors