A Companion To The Story Of The Stone

Author : Kenneth Hsien-Yung Pai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231553137
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to The Story of the Stone written by Kenneth Hsien-Yung Pai and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of the Stone (also known as Dream of the Red Chamber) is widely held to be the greatest work of Chinese literature, beloved by readers ever since it was first published in 1791. The story revolves around the young scion of a mighty clan who, instead of studying for the civil service examinations, frolics with his maidservants and girl cousins. The narrative is cast within a mythic framework in which the protagonist’s rebellion against Confucian strictures is guided by a Buddhist monk and a Taoist priest. Embedded in the novel is a biting critique of imperial China’s political and social system. This book is a straightforward guide to a complex classic that was written at a time when readers had plenty of leisure to sort through the hundreds of characters and half a dozen subplots that weave in and out of the book’s 120 chapters. Each chapter of the companion summarizes and comments on each chapter of the novel. The companion provides English-speaking readers—whether they are simply dipping into this novel or intent on a deep analysis of this masterpiece—with the cultural context to enjoy the story and understand its world. The book is keyed to David Hawkes and John Minford’s English translation of The Story of the Stone and includes an index that gives the original Chinese names and terms.

Author : Andrew Schonebaum
Publisher : Modern Language Association of America
ISBN 13 : 9781603291118
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Teaching The Story of the Stone (Dream of the Red Chamber) written by Andrew Schonebaum and published by Modern Language Association of America. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of the Stone (or Dream of the Red Chamber), a Chinese novel by Cao Xueqin and continued by Gao E, tells of an amazing garden, of a young man's choice between two beautiful women, of his journey toward enlightenment, and of the moral and financial decline of a powerful family. Published in 1792, it depicts virtually every facet of life in eighteenth-century China—and has influenced culture in China ever since.Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," provides information and resources that will help teachers and students begin and pursue their study of Stone. The essays that constitute part 2, "Approaches," introduce major topics to be covered in the classroom: Chinese religion, medicine, history, traditions of poetry, material culture, sexual mores, servants; Stone in film and on television; and the formidable challenges of translation into English that were faced by David Hawkes and then by John Minford.

Author : Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr Stone and the Knights Companion written by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1985 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barry Hughart
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0307800970
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Stone written by Barry Hughart and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a mythical, medieval China where folklore and history are indistinguishable, a dead monk, an ancientand now missingmanuscript, and a ghostly murderer entice the venerable Master Li and his faithful companion Number Ten Ox into the Valley of Sorrows for a deadly and uproarious confrontation with the long-dead Laughing Prince.

Author : Ronald R. Gray
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476681147
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Dream of the Red Chamber written by Ronald R. Gray and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-10-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of world literature, Honglou Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin (1715-1763) is widely considered China's greatest novel and serves as a compendium of traditional Chinese life and culture during the Qing Dynasty. This guide offers a comprehensive introduction and overview to Honglou Meng, providing more than 200 alphabetical entries describing characters, key events and a wide range of topics, with discussion of important themes and narrative techniques. A brief biography of Cao is included, along with a history of Chinese and English critical receptions, an extensive bibliography and recommended reading.

Author : Andrew Schonebaum
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603294139
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Teaching The Plum in the Golden Vase (The Golden Lotus) written by Andrew Schonebaum and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2022-07-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plum in the Golden Vase (also known as The Golden Lotus) was published in the early seventeenth century and may be the first long work of Chinese fiction written by a single (though anonymous) author. Featuring both complex structural elements and psychological and emotional realism, the novel centers on the rich merchant Ximen Qing and his household and describes the physical surroundings and material objects of a Ming Dynasty city. In part a social, political, and moral critique, the novel reflects on hierarchical power relations of family and state and the materialism of life at the time. The essays in this volume provide ideas for teaching the novel using a variety of approaches, from questions of genre, intertextuality, and the novel's reception to material culture, family and social dynamics, and power structures in sexual relations. Insights into the novel's representation of Buddhism, Chinese folk religion, legal culture, class, slavery, and obscenity are offered throughout the volume.

Author : Riccardo Moratto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000812375
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dream of the Red Chamber written by Riccardo Moratto and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume contains an excellent collection of contributions and presents various informative topics under the central theme: literary and translation approaches to China’s greatest classical novel Hongloumeng. Acclaimed as one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, Hongloumeng (known in English as The Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone) epitomizes 18th century Chinese social and cultural life. Owing to its kaleidoscopic description of Chinese life and culture, the novel has also exerted a significant impact on world literature. Its various translations, either full-length or abridged, have been widely read by an international audience. The contributors to this volume provide a renewed perspective into Hongloumeng studies by bringing together scholarship in the fields of literary and translation studies. Specifically, the use of corpora in the framework of digital humanities in a number of chapters helps re-address many issues of the novel and its translations, from an innovative angle. The book is an insightful resource for both scholars of Chinese literature and for linguists with a focus on translation studies.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Youth's Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emily Williams
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648890555
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation written by Emily Williams and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1866, Alexander Dunlop, a free black living in Williamsburg Virginia, did three unusual things. He had an audience with the President of the United States, testified in front of the Joint Congressional Committee on Reconstruction, and he purchased a tombstone for his wife, Lucy Ann Dunlop. Purchases of this sort were rarities among Virginia’s free black community—and this particular gravestone is made more significant by Dunlop’s choice of words, his political advocacy, and the racialized rhetoric of the period. Carved by a pair of Richmond-based carvers, who like many other Southern monument makers, contributed to celebrating and mythologizing the “Lost Cause” in the wake of the Civil War, Lucy Ann’s tombstone is a powerful statement of Dunlop’s belief in the worth of all men and his hopes for the future. Buried in 1925 by the white members of a church congregation, and again in the 1960s by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the tombstone was excavated in 2003. Analysis, conservation, and long-term interpretation were undertaken by the Foundation in partnership with the community of the First Baptist Church, a historically black church within which Alexander Dunlop was a leader. “Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation” examines the story of the tombstone through a blend of object biography and micro-historical approaches and contrasts it with other memory projects, like the remembrance of the Civil War dead. Data from a regional survey of nineteenth-century cemeteries, historical accounts, literary sources, and the visual arts are woven together to explore the agentive relationships between monuments, their commissioners, their creators and their viewers and the ways in which memory is created and contested and how this impacts the history we learn and preserve.

Author : Michel Aaij
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004425136
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Boniface written by Michel Aaij and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the life, historical and political impacts, and textual sources associated with the early medieval English missionary and church reformer Boniface, who was active in the eighth century in what is today Germany, France, and the Netherlands.