Carnival in China: A Reading of the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan

by Daria Berg

As if under the satirical magnifying glass, the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan, an 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004124268
• ISBN13: 9789004124264
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 2.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.7"