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Vignettes from the late Ming : a hsiao-pin anthology / translated with annotations and an introduction by Yang Ye.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese essays--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644--Translations into English.
- Chinese essays.
- Chinese literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource e (xxxvii, 152 pages) : maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1999.
- University of Washington Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This anthology presents seventy translated and annotated short essays, or hsiao-p’in, by fourteen well-known sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chinese writers. Hsiao-p’in, characterized by spontaneity and brevity, were a relatively informal variation on the established classical prose style in which all scholars were trained. Written primarily to amuse and entertain the reader, hsiao-p’in reflect the rise of individualism in the late Ming period and collectively provide a panorama of the colorful life of the age. Critics condemned the genre as escapist because of its focus on life’s sensual pleasures and triviality, and over the next two centuries many of these playful and often irreverent works were officially censored. Today, the essays provide valuable and rare accounts of the details over everyday life in Ming China as well as displays of wit and delightful turns of phrase.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Hsiao-p'in of the Late Ming: An Introduction
- Editorial Notes
- Kuei Yu-kuang
- Lu Shu-sheng
- Hsü Wei
- Li Chih
- T'u Lung
- Ch'en Chi-ju
- Yüan Tsung-tao
- Yüan Hung-tao
- Yüan Chung-tao
- Chung Hsing
- Li Liu-fang
- Wang Ssu-jen
- T'an Yüan-ch'un
- Chang Tai
- Appendix A: Table of Chinese Historical Dynasties
- Appendix B: Late Ming through Early Ch'ing Reign Periods
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-143) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9780295802268
- 029580226X
- 9780295980683
- 0295980680
- OCLC:
- 532733693
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