UID:
almahu_9949700905002882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004453401
,
9789004124264
Series Statement:
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 1
Content:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Carnival in China : A Reading of the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2002 ISBN 9789004124264
Language:
English
