TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hanan,Patrick
TI  - Falling in Love: Stories from Ming China
SN  - 9780824829957
U1  - 820 
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - Honolulu : 
PB  - University of Hawaii Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824841607
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