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

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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Berg, Daria, 1964-
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2002]
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:China Studies ; 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER ONE: The Xingshi yinyuan zhuan
  • CHAPTER TWO: Perceptions of Late Ming Decadence
  • CHAPTER THREE: Mapping the Landscape of Utopia,
  • Setting the Stage for Dystopia
  • PART ONE
  • CURING THE WORLD: IMAGES OF THE HEALER
  • CHAPTER FOUR: Physicians
  • The Lecherous Grand Physician
  • The Drunken Obstetrician
  • The Killer Doctor
  • The Enlightened Physician
  • CHAPTER FIVE: Bell Doctors
  • The Expert in Gynaecology
  • The Syphilis Specialist
  • CHAPTER SIX: The Clergy
  • The Spirit-Immortal
  • The Immortal Daoist
  • The Fallen Bodhisattva
  • The Dissolute Scholar-Monk
  • Two Sinful Abbots
  • The Demon Daoist
  • CHAPTER SEVEN: Lay Healers
  • The Maid and Her Book of Exorcism
  • The Lady's Demonic Healing
  • Medical Cannibalism and the Magistrate's Son
  • The Martyrdom of the Filial Scholar
  • One Family's Filial Piety
  • PART TWO
  • GOVERNING THE WORLD: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ELITE
  • CHAPTER EIGHT: Students
  • The Profligate Philistine
  • The Mischievous Cheat
  • The Virtuous Student's Easy Success
  • The Plight of the Poor but Bright Students
  • The Reluctant Imperial Academician
  • The Model Student's Retributive Rage
  • CHAPTER NINE: Teachers
  • The Modest Scholar
  • The Sadist
  • The Cannibal Schoolmaster
  • CHAPTER TEN: Scholar-cum-merchants
  • The Money-Broker
  • The Professor in Business
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN: Patrons of Scholarship
  • The Illiterate Innkeeper
  • The Wealthy Commoner
  • CHAPTER TWELVE: Scholar-officials
  • The Chancellor's Paradise Inn
  • The Philanthropic Officials
  • The Rapacious Magistrate
  • The Reformed Official
  • PART THREE
  • SAVING THE WORLD: VISIONS OF THE GREAT MOTHER
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Reformer, Saint and Saviour
  • CONCLUDING REMARKS: The Voices of Carnival
  • List of Works Cited
  • Abbreviations
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources.

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