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Selected Chinese Stories of the Song and Ming Dynasties -Library of Chinese Classics Chinese-English Compiled by Feng Menglong and Ling Mengchu (Ming Dynasty), translated into English by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang Published by Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 2007 Library binding book, dimensions 960 x 640, 1/16, 2 Volumes, 1205 pages ISBN: 9787119042589 Pinghua was originally referred to the performance art of story telling in which the performer told the story without any singing or musical accompaniment. It became very popular in the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Later, the content of those stories were recorded in writing and this is how vernacular fiction came into being. In the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), the term Pinghua was used to refer to vernacular records of stories with historical...

Series: Library of Chinese Classics Paperback: 299 pages Publisher: foreign language press (November 24, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 7119040308 ISBN-13: 978-7119040301 ASIN: B0011CLQ40 Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches This book selects 90 stories from among the fictions, such as Tales of Marvels, Records of Spirits, Records of Light and Dark, and New Anecdotes of Social Talk, of the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties (), revealing a rough picture of the dawn of classical Chinese fiction. Such works fall mainly into three categories. The first is supernatural stories, or stories about deities, immortals, ghosts and monsters, such as Tales of Marvels and Records of Spirits. The second category covers unofficial historical records, which are accounts of historical events and figures...

Selections from Record of the Listener -Library of Chinese Classics Chinese-English Author: (Song) Hong Mai; Translator: Alister D. Inglis Publisher: Foreign Languages Press, 1st Edition, 3/2009 Language: Text, Chinese and English Library binding: Hardcover, 547 pages; 9.8 x 7.2 x 1.3 ISBN: 9787119055794 Record of the Listener (Yijian zhi) is a renowned zhiguai collection from the Song Dynasty written by Hong Mai during his later years. Recording stories of the strange circulated by word of mouth, it is the largest zhiguai compilation of the Song period-originally comprising 420 chapters. Its rich content includes topics such as gods and ghosts, injustice and retribution fantasy and the uncanny, as well as regional customs. The Record of the Listener has enjoyed a privileged place in...

Selections from Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio -Library of Chinese Classics Chinese-English Author: Pu Songling (Qing Dynasty), edited by Zhang Youhe, translated into English by Huang Youyi, Zhang Qingnian, Zhang Ciyun, Yang Yi, Denis C Mair, and Victor H Mair Published by Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 2007 Library binding book, dimensions 960 x 640, 1/16, 4 Volumes, 2019 pages ISBN: 9787119050775 Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio was written by Pu Songling (1640-1715) in the Qing Dynasty. Based on folk tales, the work is unique in the history of Chinese fiction. Its 500-odd tales conjure up a weird fanciful world of human beings, ghosts, fox spirits and monsters. The author vividly depicted a group of "Liaozhai Studio" characters, soon to become well known throughout...

ISBN/ISSN : 7513527318 Published Date : 12/2012 Language : English and Chinese bilingual Publisher : Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Six Dynasties period is the ancient Chinese prose important development and transition period. In 800 years old this long historical period, China has gone from unity to division multiplexing unified process by the split return, the community also extremely volatile. "Man becomes infected almost the world situation, the rise and fall based almost Timing" prose of this period is also show...