Shifting Stories : : History, Gossip, and Lore in Narratives from Tang Dynasty China / / Sarah M. Allen.
"Explores the tale literature of eighth- and ninth-century China to show how the written tales we have today grew out of a fluid culture of hearsay that circulated within elite society. The author focuses on two main types of tales, those based in gossip about recognizable public figures and th...
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| Superior document: | Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 95 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2014. Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 311 pages ) |
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Table of Contents:
- Note on texts and editions
- Telling stories, writing tales
- Filling the gaps : tales on and against history
- Strange encounters : exploring a formula
- Strange encounters : contrivance and wit
- Rewritings : authorship and the authority of the written text
- Toward the closing of texts : the anthology Yiwen Ji
- Conclusions
- Appendix: Major tales and tale collections referenced in the text.