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Falling in Love : Stories from Ming China.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824829957
  • 9780824841607
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Shengxian -- 2. The Oil Seller -- 3. Marriage Destinies Rearranged -- 4. The Rainbow Slippers -- 5. Wu Yan -- 6. The Reckless Scholar -- 7. The Lovers' Tombs -- Appendix Two Sources -- About the Translator
Summary: Falling in love, with all its accompanying problems, was a subject of obsessive interest among writers and readers in the Ming Dynasty, when society held strictly to arranged marriages. The stories in this engaging collection all deal with this theme in very different ways, sometimes comically, sometimes tragically. They portray young people choosing their own lovers, resorting to ingenious stratagems and risky escapades in defiance of contemporary mores. Chosen to represent the best works from the great age of the vernacular story, they offer an admirable introduction to the world of Chinese fiction in this era.All of the stories in Falling in Love have been translated especially for this volume, and most appear here in translation for the first time. They are taken from two works, Constant Words to Awaken the World (Xing shi heng yan) and a related collection, The Rocks Nod Their Heads (Shi dian tou), both published in the early seventeenth century.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Shengxian -- 2. The Oil Seller -- 3. Marriage Destinies Rearranged -- 4. The Rainbow Slippers -- 5. Wu Yan -- 6. The Reckless Scholar -- 7. The Lovers' Tombs -- Appendix Two Sources -- About the Translator

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Falling in love, with all its accompanying problems, was a subject of obsessive interest among writers and readers in the Ming Dynasty, when society held strictly to arranged marriages. The stories in this engaging collection all deal with this theme in very different ways, sometimes comically, sometimes tragically. They portray young people choosing their own lovers, resorting to ingenious stratagems and risky escapades in defiance of contemporary mores. Chosen to represent the best works from the great age of the vernacular story, they offer an admirable introduction to the world of Chinese fiction in this era.All of the stories in Falling in Love have been translated especially for this volume, and most appear here in translation for the first time. They are taken from two works, Constant Words to Awaken the World (Xing shi heng yan) and a related collection, The Rocks Nod Their Heads (Shi dian tou), both published in the early seventeenth century.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)