Tang Dynasty Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tang Dynasty Tales write by William H. Nienhauser. This book was released on 2010. Tang Dynasty Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
China's Golden Age
China's Golden Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China's Golden Age write by Charles D. Benn. This book was released on 2004. China's Golden Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this fascinating and detailed profile, Benn paints a vivid picture of life in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China. 40 line illustrations.
China’s Cosmopolitan Empire
China’s Cosmopolitan Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China’s Cosmopolitan Empire write by Mark Edward Lewis. This book was released on 2009-06-30. China’s Cosmopolitan Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced its finest lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu. The Chinese engaged in extensive trade on sea and land. Merchants from Inner Asia settled in the capital, while Chinese entrepreneurs set off for the wider world, the beginning of a global diaspora. The emergence of an economically and culturally dominant south that was controlled from a northern capital set a pattern for the rest of Chinese imperial history. Poems celebrated the glories of the capital, meditated on individual loneliness in its midst, and described heroic young men and beautiful women who filled city streets and bars. Despite the romantic aura attached to the Tang, it was not a time of unending peace. In 756, General An Lushan led a revolt that shook the country to its core, weakening the government to such a degree that by the early tenth century, regional warlordism gripped many areas, heralding the decline of the Great Tang.
Tang Dynasty Stories
Tang Dynasty Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tang Dynasty Stories write by . This book was released on 1986. Tang Dynasty Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "These stories written during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) form a notable part of early Chinese fiction. Indeed, in importance they are comparable to Tang poetry. The prosperity of the Tang Dynasty with its rapid development of agriculture, handicrafts and commerce supplied a rich material basis for the complex social life which was the background to these stories. Since the authors were consciously writing fiction, they produced something more imaginative than the earlier Chinese tales of the supernatural or anecdotes of famous men. The middle period of the Tang Dynasty - the eighth century and early nineth century - was the hay-day of this form of literature. This collection includes some of the best stories of this period." -- Back cover.
Tang Dynasty Tales
Tang Dynasty Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tang Dynasty Tales write by William H. Nienhauser. This book was released on 2016. Tang Dynasty Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator's notes for these twelve tales provide insights into many aspects of Tang material culture and medieval thought, including Buddhism and Daoism. In addition to meticulously annotated translations, the book offers original texts (with some textual notes), and commentaries in the form of translator's notes, thereby joining the first volume of Tang tales as the only collections that introduce students to Tang tales while also challenging specialists interested in the field."--
