Idema The Resurrected Skeleton

From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-53651-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Translations from the Asian Classics

The first book in English to trace the resurrected skeleton, this text translates major adaptations while drawing parallels to Jesus’s encounter with a skull and the European tradition of the Dance of Death.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Idema, Wilt

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen Taoismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Two Narrative Daoqing
2. One Late Ming Play
3. One Youth Book
4. One Precious Scroll
5. One Modern Parody
Appendix 1. Three Rhapsodies
Appendix 2. Twenty-One Lyrics
Appendix 3. Ten Skeletons
Character List
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wilt L. Idema is Research Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University. He has published widely on traditional Chinese vernacular fiction and drama and is fascinated by works at the intersection of literature and religion. In recent years, he has published a number of anthologies of plays and ballads concerning traditional Chinese legends and folktales. These books include "The Orphan of Zhao" and Other Yuan Plays: The Earliest Known Versions (with Stephen H. West); Judge Bao and the Rule of Law: Eight Ballad-Stories from the Period 1250–1450; Meng Jiangnü Brings Down the Great Wall: Ten Versions of a Chinese Legend; and Escape from Blood Pond Hell: The Tales of Mulian and Woman Huang (with Beata Grant).