Zhiguai
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Theory Of The Strange Towards The Establishment Of Zhiguai As A Genre
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Author : Mingming Liu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Theory Of The Strange Towards The Establishment Of Zhiguai As A Genre written by Mingming Liu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Chinese fiction categories.
The problem of the strange has exerted a powerful fascination on different literary traditions. In China, zhiguai (translated as "accounts of the strange") was produced in great number, ranging from administrative reports of drought and misrule to accounts of apparently supernatural events. What makes it even more intriguing is the involvement of Confucian literati; scholars who normally did not deign to discuss the extraordinary were actively engaged in compiling these accounts. Literary criticism on zhiguai has also been a tenuous construction. Zhiguai shifts among different bibliographical categories, and was not recognized as a genre until the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Even today there has never been scholarly consensus on its definition. Zhiguai, therefore, is strange in its content, compilation and criticism. What are these accounts? How shall we read them? By what criteria should we judge what is strange and what is not? My dissertation offers a theory of the strange by defining zhiguai as a genre. Tracing its development in classical Chinese literature, I analyze how zhiguai challenges categorical dichotomies - history vs. fiction, natural vs. supernatural, and belief vs. disbelief - and occupies a liminal status in between. The result is a reassessment of what is normal, natural and real vis-à-vis what is anomalous, supernatural and fantastic. Devising a new ontological framework - this-world and other-world(s), I argue that it is the interaction between the two - the esoteric and/or exotic and our quotidian empirical experience - that defines the genre. The theoretical part of the dissertation is complemented with two case studies - Shenxian zhuan (Traditions of Divine Transcendents), a 4th -century zhiguai collection, and various examples in contemporary Chinese cultural production from television programs to internet gossip. Through a diachronic study as such can I uncover how the strange is woven into everyday life, and how this age-old Chinese literary genre that appears to be marginalized in its own time and nearly extinct in our modern world is still thriving today.
Zhiguai
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07-05
Zhiguai written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-05 with categories.
Discover the China that before now was only whispered about in the dark. In this collection, award-winning writers and translators Yi Izzy Yu and John Yu Branscum share paranormal and glitch in the matrix tales from across present-day China. Confided by eyewitnesses, these true stories uncannily echo Western encounters with chilling dimensions of reality and supernatural entities. At the same time, they thrillingly immerse the reader in everyday Chinese life and occult beliefs. Zhiguai: Chinese True Tales of the Paranormal and Glitches in the Matrix includes such accounts as: *The reincarnation of a teenager whose fate eerily mimics his predecessor's *A girl who dies in the womb but nevertheless continues to communicate with her twin *Terrifying shifts into demonic parallel universes *Walls desperately painted with blood to save a family from tragedy *Huge populations that disappear into thin air *The revenge-seeking ghosts of murdered cats *Weird temporal shifts *Occult murders From the terrifying to the uncanny, this collection will not only change your understanding of China but of reality itself.
Queering Gender Sexuality And Becoming Human In Qing Dynasty Zhiguai
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Author : Thomas William Whyke
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-09-24
Queering Gender Sexuality And Becoming Human In Qing Dynasty Zhiguai written by Thomas William Whyke and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book offers queer readings of Chinese Qing Dynasty zhiguai, ‘strange tales’, a genre featuring supernatural characters and events. In a unique approach interweaving Chinese philosophies alongside critical theories, this book explores tales which speak to contemporary debates around identity and power. Depictions of porous boundaries between humans and animals, transformations between genders, diverse sexualities, and contextually unusual masculinities and femininities, lend such tales to queer readings. Unlike previous scholarship on characters as allegorical figures or stories as morality tales, this book draws on queer theory, animal studies, feminism, and Deleuzian philosophy, to explore the ‘strange’ and its potential for social critique. Examining such tales enriches the scope of historic queer world literatures, offering culturally situated stories of relationships, desires, and ways of being, that both speak to and challenge contemporary debates.
To Admonish And Exhort
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Author : Tak-hung Leo Chan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
To Admonish And Exhort written by Tak-hung Leo Chan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Chinese fiction categories.
Strange Tales From A Chinese Studio
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Author : Pu Songling
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-05-25
Strange Tales From A Chinese Studio written by Pu Songling and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-25 with Fiction categories.
The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a magical pear tree, a scholar recounts his previous incarnations, a woman out-foxes the fox-spirit that possesses her, a child bride gives birth to a thimble-sized baby, a ghostly city appears out of nowhere and a heartless daughter-in-law is turned into a pig. In his tales of humans coupling with shape-shifting spirits, bizarre phenomena, haunted buildings and enchanted objects, Pu Songling pushes back the boundaries of human experience and enlightens as he entertains.
The Discourse On Foxes And Ghosts
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Author : Tak-hung Leo Chan
language : en
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Release Date : 1998
The Discourse On Foxes And Ghosts written by Tak-hung Leo Chan and has been published by Chinese University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Education categories.
Hidden And Visible Realms
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language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-29
Hidden And Visible Realms written by and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-29 with Fiction categories.
Chinese culture of the Six Dynasties period (220–589) saw a blossoming of stories of the fantastic. Zhiguai, “records of the strange” or “accounts of anomalies,” tell of encounters with otherness, in which inexplicable and uncanny phenomena interrupt mundane human affairs. They depict deities, ghosts, and monsters; heaven, the underworld, and the immortal lands; omens, metamorphoses, and trafficking between humans and supernatural beings; and legendary figures, strange creatures, and natural wonders in the human world. Hidden and Visible Realms, traditionally attributed to Liu Yiqing, is one of the most significant zhiguai collections, distinguished by its varied contents, elegant writing style, and fascinating stories. It is also among the earliest collections heavily influenced by Buddhist beliefs, values, and concerns. Beyond the traditional zhiguai narratives, it includes tales of karmic retribution, reincarnation, and Buddhist ghosts, hell, and magic. In this annotated first complete English translation, Zhenjun Zhang gives English-speaking readers a sense of the wealth and wonder of the zhiguai canon. Hidden and Visible Realms opens a window into the lives, customs, and religious beliefs and practices of early medieval China and the cultural history of Chinese Buddhism. In the introduction, Zhang explains the key themes and textual history of the work.
Strange Tales From A Chinese Studio
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Author : Pu Songling
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2011-06-28
Strange Tales From A Chinese Studio written by Pu Songling and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-28 with Literary Collections categories.
Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century. These tales of ghosts, magic, vampirism, and other things bizarre and fantastic are an excellent Chinese companion to Lafcadio Hearn's well-known collections of Japanese ghost stories Kwaidan and In Ghostly Japan. Already a true classic of Chinese literature and of supernatural tales in general, this new edition of the Herbert A. Giles translation converts the work to Pinyin for the first time and includes a new foreword by Victoria Cass that properly introduces the book to both readers of Chinese literature and of hair-raising tales best read with the lights turned low on a quiet night. Some of the stories found in these pages include: The Tiger of Zhaocheng The Magic Sword Miss Lianziang, the Fox-Girl The Quarrelsome Brothers The Princess Lily A Rip Van Winkle The Resuscitated Corpse Taoist Miracles A Chinese Solomon
Strange Stories From A Chinese Studio
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Author : Songling Pu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
Strange Stories From A Chinese Studio written by Songling Pu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with China categories.
Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction
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Author : Xiaohuan Zhao
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 2005
Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction written by Xiaohuan Zhao and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This is the first attempt ever made at a systematic analysis of classical Chinese supernatural fiction known as zhiguai under the morphological framework designed by Vladimir Propp (1928) and later developed by Alan Dundes (1964). The focus is on a synchronic presentation of textual features and structural patterns of zhiguai fiction, but the book includes a general review of zhiguai literature from Sahnhai Jin to Liaozhai Zhiyi.