Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection

Name: Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection
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ISBN: 9780295746111

ISBN-10: 0295746114

ISBN-13: 9780295746111

Edition: 2018

Authors: Aina the Aina the Layman, Ziran the Eccentric Wanderer, Robert E. Hegel

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Written around 1660, the unique Chinese short story collection Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor (Doupeng xianhua), by the author known only as Aina the Layman, uses the seemingly innocuous setting of neighbors swapping yarns on hot summer days under a shady arbor to create a series of stories that embody deep disillusionment with traditional values. The tales, ostensibly told by different narrators, parody heroic legends and explore issues that contributed to the fall of the Ming dynasty a couple of decades before this collection was written, including self-centeredness and social violence. These stories speak to all troubled times, demanding that readers confront the pretense that may lurk…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 2018
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 9/3/2019
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English