ISBN: 9780802150318 - stories from a ming collection: the art of the chinese storyteller (unesco collection of representative works: european) (16 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The popularity of the Chinese story-teller goes back to the market place of the T'ang dynasty, but the familiar figure came into his own in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and his audience included not only the populace but men of leisure and the Emperor as well. This selection of six stories from Feng Meng-lung's collection includes representative types of the story-teller's traditional art.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The popularity of the Chinese storyteller goes back to the marketplace of the T'ang dynasty, but the familiar figure came into its own in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This selection of stories from Feng Menglong's collection, Stories Old and New (originally published in 1624), includes representative types of the storyteller's traditional art. 'The Pearl-Sewn Shirt' is a cautionary romance describing the tragedy of a broken marriage; the heroic biography, which depicts a neglected man of high worth gradually receiving recognition, is represented by 'Wine and Dumplings'; an authentic twelfth-century forerunner of the detective story is found in 'The Canary Murders.' The other tales concern traffic in the supernatural, didactic admonitions to observe morality in sex and loyalty in friendship, and realistic accounts of the meanness and corruption of official life. Also includes 'The Lady Who Was a Beggar,' 'The Journey of the Corpse,' 'The Story of Wu Pao-an,' and 'The Fairy's Rescue.'.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. OCLC 331100 LCCN 59009848 ; LC PZ1.F3813 St ; yellow cloth with red lettering ; A collection of six short stories, folktales, myths, and legends from the Chinese Ming Dynasty ; Text in English, translated from the Chinese ; The popularity of the Chinese storyteller goes back to the marketplace of the T'ang dynasty, but the familiar figure came into its own in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This selection of stories from Feng Menglong's collection, Stories Old and New (originally published in 1624), includes representative types of the storyteller's traditional art. "The Pearl-Sewn Shirt" is a cautionary romance describing the tragedy of a broken marriage; the heroic biography, which depicts a neglected man of high worth gradually receiving recognition, is represented by "Wine and Dumplings"; an authentic twelfth-century forerunner of the detective story is found in "The Canary Murders." The other tales concern traffic in the supernatural, didactic admonitions to observe morality in sex and loyalty in friendship, and realistic accounts of the meanness and corruption of official life. Also includes "The Lady Who Was a Beggar," "The Journey of the Corpse," "The Story of Wu Pao-an," and "The Fairy's Rescue."; Feng Menglong, courtesy names Youlong, Gongyu, Ziyou, or Eryou, was a Chinese historian, novelist, and poet of the late Ming Dynasty. He was born in Changzhou County, now part of Suzhou, in Jiangsu Province. ; Cyril Birch (16 March 1925 - 19 May 2023)[1] was a British-American sinologist who is known for his translations of Chinese literature. He was the Agassiz Professor in Chinese and Comparative Literature at University of California, Berkeley before his retirement. ; name on front ep, else FINE/FINE. Book.…