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Language: en
Pages: 926
Authors: Mengchu Ling
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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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 p
Historian of the Strange
Language: en
Pages: 700
Authors: Judith T. Zeitlin
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection
Reading for the Moral
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Maria Franca Sibau
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-20 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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Reading for the Moral offers an innovative reassessment of the nature of moral representation and exemplarity in Chinese vernacular fiction. Maria Franca Sibau
The Chinese Vernacular Story
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Patrick Hanan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1981 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The Imperial Patronage of Labor Genre Paintings in Eighteenth-Century China
Language: en
Pages: 317
Authors: Roslyn Lee Hammers
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-30 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book examines the agrarian labor genre paintings based on the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving that were commissioned by successive Chinese emperors. Furthe