Download ebook Carnival in China : A Reading of the "Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan"

Download ebook Carnival in China : A Reading of the "Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan"

Carnival in China : A Reading of the "Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan".cD Berg

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Author: D Berg
Page Count: 422 pages
Published Date: 28 Jun 2002
Publisher: Brill
Publication Country: Leiden, Netherlands
Language: English
ISBN: 9789004124264
Download Link: Carnival in China A Reading of the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan
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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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