"With commentary and annotaions throughout, Ming Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader presents for the first time in English 10 key stories from China's Ming Dynasty era. Casting new light on this significant period in Chinese literary history, these tales...
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"With commentary and annotaions throughout, Ming Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader presents for the first time in English 10 key stories from China's Ming Dynasty era. Casting new light on this significant period in Chinese literary history, these tales bring Ming era China vividly to life, from its chaotic beginnings to its imperial heyday. As well as bearing witness to social change across the 100-year life of the Ming Dynasty from 1260 to 1368, these tales tackle key themes of war and peace and Confucian values of loyalty, filiality, chastity, and righteousness"-- 金鳳釵記 / 瞿佑 = The golden phoenix hairpin / Qu You ; translated by Paul W. Kroll -- 翠翠傳 / 瞿佑 = The Tale of Cuicui / Qu You ; translated by Zhenjun Zhang and Sidney Sondergard -- 太虛司法傳 / 瞿佑 = The account of the legal administrator of the grand void / Qu You ; translated by Kelsey Seymour -- 綠衣人傳 / 瞿佑 = The tale of the lady in green / Qu You ; translated by Yunwen Gao -- 鳳尾草記 / 李昌祺 = The record of a phoenix-tail fern / Li Changqi ; translated by Qian Liu and Joanne Tsao -- 芙蓉屏記 / 李昌祺 = The record of the lotus screen / Li Changqi ; translated by Weiguo Cao -- 鞦韆會記 / 李昌祺 = The tale of the swing-play gathering / Li Changqi ; translated by Jing Wang -- 姚公子傳 / 邵景詹 = The tale of young Master Yao / Shao Jingzhan ; translated by Chen Wu -- 負情儂傳 / 宋懋澂 = The faithless lover / Song Maocheng ; translated by Zhenjun Zhang -- 珍衫 / 宋懋澂 = The pearl shirt / Song Maocheng ; translated by Jing Hu.
