Stories Old and New

Stories Old and New

A Ming Dynasty Collection
Buch | Hardcover
825 Seiten
2015
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-99582-3 (ISBN)
117,20 inkl. MwSt
Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong’s Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best of Feng’s three such collections and was a pivotal work in the development of vernacular fiction. The stories are valuable as examples of early fiction and for their detailed depiction of daily life among a broad range of social classes. The stories are populated by scholars and courtesans, spirits and ghosts, Buddhist monks and nuns, pirates and emperors, and officials both virtuous and corrupt. The streets and abodes of late-Ming China come alive in Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang’s smooth and colorful translation of these entertaining tales.

Stories Old and New has long been popular in China and has been published there in numerous editions. Although some of the stories have appeared in English translations in journals and anthologies, they have not previously been presented sequentially in thematic pairs as arranged by Feng Menglong. This unabridged translation, illustrated with a selection of woodcuts from the original Ming dynasty edition and including Feng’s interlinear notes and marginal comments, as well as all of the verse woven throughout the text, allows the modern reader to experience the text as did its first audience nearly four centuries ago.

For other titles in the collection go to http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/ming.html

Shuhui Yang is associate professor of Chinese at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He is the author of Appropriation and Representation: Feng Menglong and the Chinese Vernacular Story. Yunqin Yang is a freelance simultaneous interpreter at the United Nations.For other titles in the collection go to http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/ming.html

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Translators’ Note

Chronology of Chinese Dynasties

Title Page from the 1620 Edition

Preface to the 1620 Edition

1) Jiang Zingge Reencounters His Pearl Shirt

2) Censor Chen Ingeniously Solves the Case of the Gold Hairpins and Brooches

3) Han the Fifth Sells Her Charms in New Bridge Town

4) Ruan San Redeems His Debt in Leisurely Clouds Nunnery

5) Penniless Ma Zhou Meets His Opportunity through a Woman Selling Pancakes

6) Lord Ge Gives Away Pearl Maiden

7) Yang Jiao’ai Lays Down His Life for the Sake of Friendship

8) Wu Bao’an Abandons His Family to Ransom His Friend

9) Duke Pei of Jin Returns a Concubine to Her Rightful Husband

10) Magistrate Teng Settles the Case of Inheritance with Ghostly Cleverness

11) Zhao Bosheng Meets with Emperor Renzong in a Teahouse

12) Zhang Daoling Tests Zhao Sheng Seven Times

14) Chen Xiyi Rejects Four Appointments from the Imperial court

15) The Dragon-and-Tiger Reunion of Shi Hongzhao the Minister and his Friend the King

16) The Chicken-and-Millet Dinner for Fan Juqing, Friend in Life and Death

17) Shan Fulang’s Happy Marriage in Quanzhou

18) Yang Balao’s Extraordinary Family Reunion in the Land of Yue

19) Yang Qianzhi Meets a Monk Knight-Errant on a Journey by Boat

20) Chen Congshan Loses His Wife on Mei Ridge

21) Qian Poliu Begins His Career in Lin’an

22) Zheng Huchen Seeks Revenge in Mumian Temple

23) Zhang Shunmei Finds a Fair Lady during the Lantern Festival

24) Yang Siwen Meets an Old Acquaintance in Yanshan

25) Yan Pingzhong Kills Three Men with Two Peaches

26) Shen Ziu Causes Seven Deaths with One Bird

27) Jin Yunu Beats the Heartless Man

28) Li Xiuqing Marries the Virgin Huang with Honor

29) Monk Moon Bright Redeems Willow Green

30) Abbot Mingwu Redeems Abbot Wujie

31) Sima Mao Disrupts Order in the Underworld and Sits in Judgement

32) Humu Di Intones Poems and Visits the Netherworld

33) Old Man Zhang Grows Melons and Marries Wennu

34) Mr. Li Saves a Snake and Wins Chenxin

35) The Monk with a Note Cleverly Tricks Huangfu’s Wife

36) Song the Fourth Greatly Torments Tightwad Zhang

37) Emperor Wudi of the Liang Dynasty Goes to the Land of Extreme Bliss through Ceaseless Cultivation

38) Ren the Filial Son with a Fiery Disposition Becomes a God

39) Wang Xinzhi Dies to Save the Entire Family

40) Shen Xiaoxia Encounters the Expedition Memorials

Notes

Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.7.2015
Mitarbeit Zusammenstellung: Feng Menglong
Übersetzer Shuhui Yang, Yunqin Yang
Zusatzinfo 10 illus.
Verlagsort Seattle
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 1338 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Volkskunde
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-295-99582-3 / 0295995823
ISBN-13 978-0-295-99582-3 / 9780295995823
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