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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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A collection of stories that provides a vivid panorama of the bustling world of imperial China before the end of the Ming dynasty.
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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…
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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…
The first complete translation of Feng Menglong’s collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China
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…
Mengchu Ling
Slapping the Table in Amazement is the unabridged English translation of the famous story collection Pai'an jingqi by Ling Mengchu (1580-1644), originally published in 1628. The forty lively stories gathered…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Edge Computing, EDGE 2020, held virtually as part of SCF 2020, in Honolulu, HI, USA, in September 2020.
