Speaking about Chinese writing entails thinking about how writing speaks through various media. In the guises of the written character and its imprints, traces or ruins, writing is more than textuality. The goal of this volume is to consider the relationship of writing to materiality in China's literary history and to ponder the physical aspects of the production and circulation of writing. To speak of the thing-ness of writing is to understand it as a thing in constant motion, transported from one place or time to another, one genre or medium to another, one person or public to another.
Speaking about Chinese writing entails thinking about how writing speaks through various media. In the guises of the written character and its imprint...
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 of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.
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 ...
This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Record of the Strange by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly 500 fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.
This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Record of the Strange by Pu Songling, a collection of near...
Case studies fascinate because they link individual instances to general patterns and knowledge to action without denying the priority of individual situations over the generalizations derived from them. In this volume, an international group of senior scholars comes together to consider the use of cases to produce empirical knowledge in premodern China. They trace the process by which the project of thinking with cases acquired a systematic and public character in the ninth century CE and after. Premodern Chinese experts on medicine and law circulated printed case collections to...
Case studies fascinate because they link individual instances to general patterns and knowledge to action without denying the priority of individua...
The phantom heroine--in particular the fantasy of her resurrection through sex with a living man--is one of the most striking features of traditional Chinese literature. Even today the hypersexual female ghost continues to be a source of fascination in East Asian media, much like the sexually predatory vampire in American and European movies, TV, and novels. But while vampires can be of either gender, erotic Chinese ghosts are almost exclusively female. The significance of this gender asymmetry in Chinese literary history is the subject of Judith Zeitlin's elegantly written and...
The phantom heroine--in particular the fantasy of her resurrection through sex with a living man--is one of the most striking features of tradition...
