| Carnival in China: A Reading of the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan Contributor(s): Berg, Daria (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004124268 ISBN-13: 9789004124264 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $203.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2002 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - General - Architecture | Interior Design - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Dewey: 895.134 |
| LCCN: 2002018608 |
| Series: China Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.28" H x 6.64" W x 9.72" (2.04 lbs) 436 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |