11 Oct 2002

New Book: 'Carnival in China A reading of the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan' (2002)
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "'Carnival in China' China Studies, 1, 'A Reading of the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan' by Daria Berg (2002).
[A]n anonymous traditional Chinese novel, portrays local society and provincial life in seventeenth-century China in comic and grotesque close-up. A dystopian satire, the novel provides fascinating insights into the popular culture and wild imagination of men and women in late imperial China. 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 style of reading that explores how seventeenth-century Chinese citizens perceived their world. - avh."
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