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Includes bibliographical references and inidex Publisher's description: 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 sourcesfiction, poetry, texts on medical ethics, religious thought, political and philosophical treatises, morality books and local gazetteers Carnival in China develops a style of reading that explores how seventeenth-century Chinese citizens perceived their world. Through their eyes, we gain access to their desires, dreams, fears and nightmares. Inhalt: Acknowledgements. Map. Ch. 1. The Xingshi yinyuan zhuan, p. 1. Ch. 2. Perceptions of Late Ming Decadence, p. 19. Ch. 3. Mapping the Landscape of Utopia, Setting the Stage for Dystopia, p. 33. Pt. 1. Curing the World: Images of the Healer. Ch. 4. Physicians, p. 61. Ch. 5. Bell Doctors, p. 101. Ch. 6. The Clergy, p. 116. Ch. 7. Lay Healers, p. 145. Pt. 2. Governing the World: Representations of the Elite. Ch. 8. Students, p. 171. Ch. 9. Teachers, p. 225. Ch. 10. Scholar-cum-merchants, p. 247. Ch. 11. Patrons of Scholarship, p. 264. Ch. 12. Scholar-officials, p. 277. Pt. 3. Saving the World: Visions of the Great Mother. Ch. 13. Reformer, Saint and Saviour, p. 323. Concluding Remarks: The Voices of Carnival, p. 355. List of Works Cited, p. 367. Index, p. 413. |
