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There are two theories about how he died. One is that he was killed by the Qing forces, and another is that his worries about the country made him sick. Feng's works included fiction, drama, and music. He played a major role in enhancing Ming dynasty drama and bringing it into a thriving state. Nevertheless, he was mostly known for his fiction.
Judith T. Zeitlin (b. 1958; [1] Chinese: 蔡九迪) is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. [2] Her areas of interest are Ming-Qing literary and cultural history, with specialties in the classical tale and drama.
In Ming and Qing dynasties, vernacular novels were far more popular than those written in classical Chinese. [9]: 238 Many of the latter imitated the themes and writing of chuanqi from Tang and Song dynasties. Certain scholars also categorise them in a broad sense as chuanqi.
The transition from Ming to Qing (or simply the Ming-Qing transition [4]) or the Manchu conquest of China from 1618 to 1683 saw the transition between two major dynasties in Chinese history. It was a decades-long conflict between the emerging Qing dynasty, the incumbent Ming dynasty, and several smaller factions (like the Shun dynasty and Xi ...
The late Ming and early Qing dynasty versions of these novels, however, included commentaries that were printed between the lines, so that the reader saw them as part of the text. These commentaries interpreted the text in often strained ways, but established critical and aesthetic criteria, modeled on those of poetry and painting, that gave ...
During the late Ming dynasty and early Qing dynasty, a subgenre of comedic shenmo had emerged. [ 10 ] The grotesque exposés of the Qing dynasty ( qiangze xiaoshuo ) reference the supernatural motifs of shenmo xiaoshuo , but in the Qing exposés, the division between the real and unreal is less clear cut.
Jingshi Tongyan (警世通言, Stories to Caution the World) is the second of a trilogy of widely celebrated Ming dynasty (1368–1644) vernacular story collections, compiled and edited by Feng Menglong and published in 1624. [1]
The love of the scholar and the beauty "sharply contrasts" with depictions in late Ming fiction, where love is erotic rather than spiritual. In the caizi jiaren novel, "sentiment replaces libido" and "refined, internal feelings replace vulgar, external sensations". [8] One characteristic of the early Qing works is the mutual respect between the ...