Slapping the Table in Amazement: A Ming Dynasty Story Collection by Ling, Mengchu

Slapping the Table in Amazement: A Ming Dynasty Story Collection (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780295742137)

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Slapping the Table in Amazement: A Ming Dynasty Story Collection by Ling, Mengchu

Slapping the Table in Amazement: A Ming Dynasty Story Collection

$55.00
Slapping the Table in Amazement: A Ming Dynasty Story Collection by Ling, Mengchu

Slapping the Table in Amazement: A Ming Dynasty Story Collection

$55.00
Format: Paperback
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Slapping the Table in Amazement is the unabridged English translation of the famous story collection Pai'an jingqi by Ling Mengchu (1580-1644), originally published in 1628. The forty lively stories gathered here present a broad picture of traditional Chinese society and include characters from all social levels. We learn of their joys and sorrows, their views about life and death, and their visions of the underworld and the supernatural.

Ling was a connoisseur of popular literature and a seminal figure in the development of Chinese literature in the vernacular, which paved the way for the late-imperial Chinese novel. Slapping the Table in Amazement includes translations of verse and prologue stories as well as marginal and interlinear comments.



Author: Mengchu Ling
ISBN-10: 0295742135
ISBN-13: 9780295742137
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2018
Pages: 928
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.60lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 1.60d

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Shuhui Yang is professor of Chinese at Bates College. Yunqin Yang is a simultaneous interpreter in the United Nations Secretariat. Together they translated the three-volume set of Ming dynasty stories by Feng Menglong: Stories Old and New, Stories to Caution the World, and Stories to Awaken the World.

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