Animal Allegories in T'ang China
Author : Madeline Kay Spring
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Madeline Kay Spring
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : 张方
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9787119020648
Many Chinese believe that every person has the characteristics of their animal sign. Animal Symbolism is an excellent introduction to the endlessly fascinating Chinese Zodiac with historical anecdotes.
Author : Roel Sterckx
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1108428150
This innovative collection opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author : Roel Sterckx
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791489159
Exploring the cultural perception of animals in early Chinese thought, this careful reading of Warring States and Han dynasty writings analyzes how views of animals were linked to human self perception and investigates the role of the animal world in the conception of ideals of sagehood and socio-political authority. Roel Sterckx shows how perceptions of the animal world influenced early Chinese views of man's place among the living species and in the world at large. He argues that the classic Chinese perception of the world did not insist on clear categorical or ontological boundaries between animals, humans, and other creatures such as ghosts and spirits. Instead the animal realm was positioned as part of an organic whole and the mutual relationships among the living species—both as natural and cultural creatures—were characterized as contingent, continuous, and interdependent.
Author : Hean-Tatt Ong
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9789679784350
The Chinese have a wide and bewildering array of animal symbolisms that influence every facet of their life and community
Author : Paul W. Kroll
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9004380167
The Tang dynasty, lasting from 618 to 907, was the high point of medieval Chinese history, featuring unprecedented achievements in governmental organization, economic and territorial expansion, literature, the arts, and religion. Many Tang practices continued, with various developments, to influence Chinese society for the next thousand years. For these and other reasons the Tang has been a key focus of Western sinologists. This volume presents English-language reprints of fifty-seven critical studies of the Tang, in the three general categories of political history, literature and cultural history, and religion. The articles and book chapters included here are important scholarly benchmarks that will serve as the starting-point for anyone interested in the study of medieval China.
Author : William H. Nienhauser
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9814287288
The book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the genre of Tang tales in English, including discussions of the numerous Chinese studies from the last decade. Tang Tales itself contains the first annotated translations of these famous stories, which are deciphered and interpreted specifically for students and scholars interested in the medieval Chinese literature. Following the model of intertextual readings employed by Glen Dudbridge in The Tale of Li Wa (Oxford, 1983), the annotation points to the resonances to the classical texts; the translator's notes following each translation then explain how these references expand the meaning of the text. In addition to six translations of the major tales (chuanqi, "transmitting the strange"), there is also a rendition of a fantastic tale by Liu Zongyuan, suggesting close ties with popular and oral literature. The appended glossary of terms marks the first attempt to create such a reference for readers and scholars of Tang tales that will be of use in reading other tales as well. The meticulous scholarship of this book elevates it above all existing collections of these stories, and the inclusion of the standard introduction to the Tang tales for graduate students and researchers engenders a deeper appreciation.
Author : Wilt Idema
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0892641231
Selected for Choice's list of Outstanding Academic Books for 1997. A comprehensive overview of China's 3,000 years of literary history, from its beginnings to the present day. After an introductory section discussing the concept of literature and other features of traditional Chinese society crucial to understanding its writings, the second part is broken into five major time periods (earliest times to 100 c.e.; 100-1000; 1000-1875; 1875-1915; and 1915 to the present) corresponding to changes in book production. The development of the major literary genres is traced in each of these periods. The reference section in the cloth edition includes an annotated bibliography of more than 120 pages; the paper edition has a shorter bibliography and is intended for classroom use.
Author :
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0295744847
In literatures worldwide, animal fables have been analyzed for their revealingly anthropomorphic views, but until now little attention has been given to the animal tales of China. The complex, competitive relationship between rodents (vilified as thieves of grain) and the felines with whom they are perennially at war is explored in this presentation of Chinese tales about cats and mice. Master translator Wilt Idema situates them in an overview of animal tales in world literature, in the Chinese literary tradition as a whole, and within Chinese imaginative depictions of animals. The tales demonstrate the animals’ symbolism and their unusually prominent—and verbal—role in the stories. These readings depict cats and mice in conflict, in marital bonds, and in litigation—most centrally in a legal case of a mouse against a cat in the underworld court of King Yama. Many of the stories adopt the perspective of the mice as animals merely trying to survive, while also recognizing that cats are natural hunters. This entertaining volume will appeal to readers interested in Chinese literature and society, comparative literature, and posthumanist consideration of human-animal relations.
Author : Hope B. Werness
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780826419132
Animals and their symbolism in diverse world cultures and different eras of human history are chronicled in this lovely volume.