Carnival in China

A Reading of the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-04-12426-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 422 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 925 g

Reihe: China Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berg, Daria

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Daria Berg, Ph.D. (1995) in Chinese Literature, University of Oxford, is Associate Professor at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham. She has published extensively on traditional Chinese literature, literary theory and modern Chinese fiction (PRC and Taiwan) and is currently involved in research on women, gender and gentility in China.