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Menglong - Stories to Caution the World: A Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 2 - 9780295985688 - V9780295985688
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Stories to Caution the World: A Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 2

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Description for Stories to Caution the World: A Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 2 Paperback. Translator(s): Yang, Shuhui; Yang, Yunqin. Series: A Ming Dynasty Collection. Num Pages: 792 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1122.

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 vernacular fiction. These tales, whose importance in the Chinese literary canon and in world literature is without question, have been compared to Boccaccio's Decameron and the stories of A Thousand and One Nights.

Peopled with scholars, emperors, ministers, generals, and a gallery of ordinary men and women in their everyday surroundings -- merchants and artisans, prostitutes and courtesans, matchmakers and fortune-tellers, monks and nuns, servants and maids, thieves and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
792
Condition
New
Series
A Ming Dynasty Collection
Number of Pages
792
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295985688
SKU
V9780295985688
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Menglong
Feng Menglong (1574-1646), the most knowledgeable connoisseur of popular literature of his time, is best known for his three collections of vernacular stories, now commonly known as the Sanyan. Shuhui Yang is professor of Chinese at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. Yunqin Yang is a simultaneous interpreter in the United Nations Secretariat. Together, they translated Feng's Gujin xiaoshuo as Stories Old ... Read more

Reviews for Stories to Caution the World: A Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 2
"Stories to Caution the World offers the reader plenty to savor. . . . often shrewd and knowing, and never dull, [the translated comments] provide a new element of commentary over and above that built into the stories through the storyteller's manner, and introduce an agreeably unpredictable element that enhances the pleasure of reading Stories to Caution the World."
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