Carnival in China : : a reading of the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan / / Daria Berg.

As if under the satirical magnifying glass, the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan , an anonymous traditional Chinese novel, portrays local society and provincial life in seventeenth-century China in comic and grotesque close-up. A dystopian satire, the novel provides fascinating insights into the popular cultur...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:China Studies ; 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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