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Carnival in China : a reading of the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan / Daria Berg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berg, Daria, 1964- author.
- Series:
- China Studies ; 1.
- China Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Chinese Traditional.
- Pu, Song ling, 1640-1715.
- Pu, Song ling.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2002]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER ONE: The Xingshi yinyuan zhuan
- CHAPTER TWO: Perceptions of Late Ming Decadence
- CHAPTER THREE: Mapping the Landscape of Utopia,
- Setting the Stage for Dystopia
- PART ONE
- CURING THE WORLD: IMAGES OF THE HEALER
- CHAPTER FOUR: Physicians
- The Lecherous Grand Physician
- The Drunken Obstetrician
- The Killer Doctor
- The Enlightened Physician
- CHAPTER FIVE: Bell Doctors
- The Expert in Gynaecology
- The Syphilis Specialist
- CHAPTER SIX: The Clergy
- The Spirit-Immortal
- The Immortal Daoist
- The Fallen Bodhisattva
- The Dissolute Scholar-Monk
- Two Sinful Abbots
- The Demon Daoist
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Lay Healers
- The Maid and Her Book of Exorcism
- The Lady's Demonic Healing
- Medical Cannibalism and the Magistrate's Son
- The Martyrdom of the Filial Scholar
- One Family's Filial Piety
- PART TWO
- GOVERNING THE WORLD: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ELITE
- CHAPTER EIGHT: Students
- The Profligate Philistine
- The Mischievous Cheat
- The Virtuous Student's Easy Success
- The Plight of the Poor but Bright Students
- The Reluctant Imperial Academician
- The Model Student's Retributive Rage
- CHAPTER NINE: Teachers
- The Modest Scholar
- The Sadist
- The Cannibal Schoolmaster
- CHAPTER TEN: Scholar-cum-merchants
- The Money-Broker
- The Professor in Business
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Patrons of Scholarship
- The Illiterate Innkeeper
- The Wealthy Commoner
- CHAPTER TWELVE: Scholar-officials
- The Chancellor's Paradise Inn
- The Philanthropic Officials
- The Rapacious Magistrate
- The Reformed Official
- PART THREE
- SAVING THE WORLD: VISIONS OF THE GREAT MOTHER
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Reformer, Saint and Saviour
- CONCLUDING REMARKS: The Voices of Carnival
- List of Works Cited
- Abbreviations
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-45340-7
- OCLC:
- 647517392
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004453401 DOI
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