Qian / Rea Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts

Stories and Essays
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-52654-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Weatherhead Books on Asia

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Qian, Zhongshu

Rea, Christopher G.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hu, Dennis

Mao, Nathan

Mao, Yiran

Rea, Christopher G.

Williams, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Written in the Margins of Life and Human, Beast, Ghost
Author's Preface to the 1983 Editions of Written in the Margins of Life and Human, Beast, Ghost
Written in the Margins of Life
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
The Devil Pays a Nighttime Visit to Mr. Qian Zhongshu
Windows
On Happiness
On Laughter
Eating
Reading Aesop's Fables
On Moral Instruction
A Prejudice
Explaining Literary Blindness
On Writers
Notes
Human, Beast, Ghost
First Preface to the 1946 Kaiming Edition
Second Preface to the 1946 Kaiming Edition
God's Dream
Cat
Inspiration
Souvenir
Notes
Editions
Further Reading in English
Translators

Über Autor(innen)

Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998), hailed as twentieth-century China's "foremost man of letters," is best known for his novel, Fortress Besieged, and his groundbreaking study of the Chinese literary canon, Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters.

Christopher G. Rea is assistant professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of British Columbia.