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 ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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| Summary: | 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 culture and wild imagination of men and women in late imperial China. Using an array of sources-fiction, poetry, texts on medical ethics, religious thought, political and philosophical treatises, morality books and local gazetteers- Carnival in China develops a style of reading that explores how seventeenth-century Chinese citizens perceived their world. Through their eyes, we gain access to their desires, dreams, fears and nightmares. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004453407 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Daria Berg. |