Carnival in China : a reading of the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan

Series
China studies
ISBN
90-04-12426-8
Type
book
Date Issued
2002
Author(s)
Abstract
Daria Berg's book, Carnival in China: A Reading of the Xingshi yinyuan zhuan (2002), explores how a seventeenth-century Chinese dystopian novel portrays local society in comic and grotesque close-up. Using an array of sources-fiction, poetry, texts on medical ethics, religious thought, political and philosophical treatises, morality books and local gazetteers-Carnival in China develops a new style of reading that provides insight into the desires, dreams, fears and nightmares of seventeenth-century Chinese citizens.
Language
English
Keywords
classical chinese literature
chinese literature
chinese studies
sinology
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM)
Refereed
No
Publisher
Brill
Publisher place
Leiden
Number
Vol. 1
Start page
421
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Subject(s)

cultural studies

Division(s)

SHSS - School of Huma...

Eprints ID
207430
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