Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance
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Author : Jieyuan Dong
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521208710
Comprising 184 prose passages and 5,263 lines of verse to be narrated and sung by a performing singer-storyteller, it is an elaboration of the Tang dynasty love story, "The Story of Ying-ying, " by Yuan Chen (779-831).
Author : Toeng
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Page : 238 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 1976
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Author : Jieyuan Dong
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231101196
"Composed of 184 prose passages and 5,263 lines of verse to be narrated and sung by a performing singer-storyteller, Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance is an elaboration of the T'ang dynasty love story, The Story of Ying-ying, by Yuan Chen (779-831). But unlike the T'ang story, in which the lovers fail to marry each other, Master Tang's Western Chamber Romance ends with their wedding."--Cover.
Author : John King FAIRBANK
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674036646
For generations scholars and the general public have looked to John King Fairbank for knowledge and insights about China. In four editions of this work he has provided these. Reviews of this book: "An indispensable book for thoughtful people." DD--New York Times Book Review "Fairbank provides a miraculously concise account of Chinese civilization from its foundations to the present day...Maps, photographs, and an 80-page bibliography make this an invaluable reference work." DD--New Republic "As useful and timely as when it first appeared in 1948. Written by America's foremost China scholar, John Fairbank, the book addresses a popular, not the academic, audience. It offers a sweeping view of the Chinese polity from ancient times up to the recent, convoluted period of Western contact, spiced by the wit and insight into detail of a geographer who drew the maps himself...Yet the book offers much to the specialist as well as the layman. To the historian, a state-of-the-art review of the latest historical analysis of modern china...To the student, a cogent guide to the field...For the diplomat and businessman, the work explores that most intangible but also most influential area of human feeling between the two countries that has launched ventures and derailed them." DD--China Business Review "The best general introduction to the Chinese political system...A book of love and great learning." DD--Kirkus Reviews "Still flashes with brilliance in its latest (fourth) incarnation...With this latest edition of what is arguably the best guide to China in any language, American and other non-Chinese readers may finally catch a glimpse of the 'very complex' Chinese way of life." DD--Asiaweek Literary Review "[Fairbank's] ability to transcend the academic to write a highly readable, authoritative, information-packed, perceptive and analytical account of the Chinese is unsurpassed. This is must reading for all Asiaphiles." DD--Asia Mail
Author : Laurence Ernest Rowland Picken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 1981-01-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521224000
The book aims to reflect characteristic aspects of Dr Picken's study of Oriental and other non-Western musics. Appealing in particular to those engaged in the study of non-Western music, the volume will also interest everyone concerned with musical structures and their development.
Author : William H. Nienhauser
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780253329837
"A vertitable feast of concise, useful, reliable, and up-to-dateinformation (all prepared by top scholars in the field), Nienhauser's now two-volumetitle stands alone as THE standard reference work for the study of traditionalChinese literature. Nothing like it has ever been published." --Choice The second volume to The Indiana Companion to TraditionalChinese Literature is both a supplement and an update to the original volume. VolumeII includes over 60 new entries on famous writers, works, and genres of traditionalChinese literature, followed by an extensive bibliographic update (1985-1997) ofeditions, translations, and studies (primarily in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and German) for the 500+ entries of Volume I.
Author : Denis C. Twitchett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521243315
This volume covers the Khitan dynasty of Liao; the Tangut state of Hsi Hsia; the Jurchen empire of Chin; and the Mongolian Yüan dynasty.
Author : Wilt Idema
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9004482814
Author : Victor H. Mair
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1684170044
This is the most comprehensive study of pien-wen (“transformation texts” i.e., tales of metamorphosis) in any language since the manuscripts were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century in a remote cave complex in northwest China. They are the earliest written vernacular narratives in China and are thus extremely important in the history of Chinese language and literature. Numerous scholarly controversies have surrounded the study of the texts in the last three quarters of a century; this volume seeks to resolve some of them—the extent, origins, and formal characteristics of the texts, the meaning of pien wen, the identity of the authors who composed these popular narratives and the scribes who copied them, the relationship of the texts to oral performance, and the reasons for the apparently sudden demise of the genre around the beginning of the Sung dynasty. This is a multi-disciplinary study that integrates findings from religious, literary, linguistic, sociological, and historical materials, carried out with intellectual rigor. It includes an extensive bibliography of relevant sources in many languages.