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  1. The Resurrected Skeleton
    From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    The Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi (369?286 B.C.E.) encountered a skull that later in a dream praises the pleasures of death over the toil of living. This anecdote became popular with poets in the second and third centuries and found renewed... more

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    The Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi (369?286 B.C.E.) encountered a skull that later in a dream praises the pleasures of death over the toil of living. This anecdote became popular with poets in the second and third centuries and found renewed significance with the founders of Quanzhen Daoism. These philosophers turned the skull into a skeleton, a metonym for death and a symbol of the refusal of enlightenment. Popular throughout the Ming dynasty (1368?1644) and reenvisioned by the fiction writer Lu Xun (1881?1936), the legend echoes transformations in Chinese philosophy and culture. The first book...

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231165044; 9780231536516 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
    Scope: 345 p.
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  2. The Resurrected Skeleton
    From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

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  3. The Resurrected Skeleton
    From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    The Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi (369?286 B.C.E.) encountered a skull that later in a dream praises the pleasures of death over the toil of living. This anecdote became popular with poets in the second and third centuries and found renewed... more

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    The Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi (369?286 B.C.E.) encountered a skull that later in a dream praises the pleasures of death over the toil of living. This anecdote became popular with poets in the second and third centuries and found renewed significance with the founders of Quanzhen Daoism. These philosophers turned the skull into a skeleton, a metonym for death and a symbol of the refusal of enlightenment. Popular throughout the Ming dynasty (1368?1644) and reenvisioned by the fiction writer Lu Xun (1881?1936), the legend echoes transformations in Chinese philosophy and culture. The first book

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231165044
    Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
    Subjects: Zhuangzi -- In literature; Chinese literature -- History and criticism; Resurrection in literature; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (345 p)
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    Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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