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Menglong Feng
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The first complete translation of Feng Menglong’s collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China
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Shuhui Yang
Adapts concepts of ventriloquism and dialogism from Bakhtin and Holquist to explore Feng Menglong’s methods of selecting source materials. Shuhui Yang develops a model of development in which Feng’s approach…
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Feng Menglong
The popularity of the Chinese storyteller goes back to the marketplace of the T'ang dynasty, but the familiar figure came into its own in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This…
This abridged edition introduces readers to the power and drama of this electrifying classic Chinese novel. One of the great works of Chinese literature, beloved in East Asia but virtually…
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Translated in full for the first time, this first volume immerses readers in the power and drama of the electrifying classic Chinese novel.
Deep inside the Zhou royal palace, an…
Translated in full for the first time, this second volume immerses readers in the power and drama of the electrifying classic Chinese novel.
Lord Wen of Jin brings some temporary…
Translated in full for the first time, this third volume immerses readers in the power and drama of the electrifying classic Chinese novel.
The three great southern states of Chu…
Translated in full for the first time, this fourth volume immerses readers in the power and drama of the electrifying classic Chinese novel.
Many centuries of violence have forged a…
Pi-Ching Hsu
Translates and analyzes over forty songs and ninety jokes from Child’s Folly , a trilogy of popular literature compiled by Feng Menglong. This book offers a study of the foibles…
Pi-ching Hsu
In Treasury of Laughs Hsu Pi-ching reconstructs the Chinese original and provides the only complete annotated English translation of Feng Menglong’s Xiaofu, a 17th-century anthology of traditional Chinese humour with…
These eight tales from the Song and Ming Dynasties present readers with a colorful tapestry of adventure and misadventure, erotic romance, crafty intrigue, supernatural fantasy, comedies of errors, and crimes…
A collection of stories that provides a vivid panorama of the bustling world of imperial China before the end of the Ming dynasty.
Provides an unparalleled view of the art of traditional Chinese short fiction.
Includes stories that were pivotal to the development of Chinese vernacular fiction, and their importance in the Chinese literary canon and world literature has been compared to that of Boccaccio’s…
A collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best of author’s three such collections and was a pivotal work in the development…
Stories to Caution the World is the first complete translation of Jingshi tongyan, the second of Feng Menglong’s three collections of stories which were pivotal in the development of Chinese…
This is a complete translation of Jingshi Tongyan, the second of Feng’s three 17th century compilations that were pivotal in the development of Chinese vernacular fiction. The stories in this…
