Falling in Love
Stories from Ming China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23512876 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Patrick Hanan |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 288 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Falling in Love (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9780824841607 |
| OpenAlex | W3059498664 |
| Open Library | OL29375013M |
| ISBN | 9780824841607 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Falling in love, with all its accompanying problems, was a subject of obsessive interest among writers and readers in the Ming Dynasty, when society held strictly to arranged marriages. The stories in this engaging collection all deal with this theme in very different ways, sometimes comically, sometimes tragically. They portray young people choosing their own lovers, resorting to ingenious stratagems and risky escapades in defiance of contemporary mores. Chosen to represent the best works from the great age of the vernacular story, they offer an admirable introduction to the world of Chinese fiction in this era. All of the stories in Falling in Love have been translated especially for this volume, and most appear here in translation for the first time. They are taken from two works, Constant Words to Awaken the World ( Xing shi heng yan ) and a related collection, The Rocks Nod Their Heads ( Shi dian tou ), both published in the early seventeenth century.
Art · Falling (accident) · Falling in love · Psychoanalysis · Chinese history and philosophy · Joseph Conrad and Literature · Psychology · Translation Studies and Practices · Chinese fiction · History and criticism · Love in literature · Translations into English
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2022 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |