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Real life in China at the height of empire : revealed by the ghosts of Ji Xiaolan / edited & translated by David E. Pollard

Author
Ji, Yun, 1724-1805
Uniform Title
Yue wei cao tang bi ji. English and 閱微草堂筆記. English
Additional Titles
閱微草堂筆記
Published
Hong Kong : Chinese University Press, ©2014.
Copyright Date
©2014
Physical Description
1 online resource (xl, 334 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Additional Creators
Ji, Yun, 1724-1805 and Pollard, David E.
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Language Note
Chinese cover title: Yuwei caotang biji.
Chinese cover title: 閱微草堂筆記.
Contents
Spirits, spectres and demons -- Ghosts -- Hauntings -- Foxes -- Fortune-telling -- Beyond belief -- Reincarnation -- Curiosities -- The wild west -- Officialdom -- Legal dilemmas and disputes -- Yamen staff -- Servants -- Hearth and home -- Piety and paragons -- Love pledged and blighted -- Friends and false friends -- Personal -- Dogma and dogmatists -- Morality -- Pedants -- Women -- Homosexuality -- Impersonation -- Fraud -- Merchants -- Bandits, brigands and robbers -- Physical prowess -- Jesuits in China.
Summary
"Toward the end of the eighteenth century, the scholar and wit Ji Xiaolan published five collections of anecdotes and discourses on the interaction between the mundane and the spirit worlds, incorporating earthly life stories and happenings. Containing Ji's thoughts and others' experiences, these tales concern peasants, servants, merchants, governors, and ministers; take place throughout the Qing empire; and recount comedy and tragedy, cruelty and kindness, corruption and integrity, and erudition and ignorance. Some stories use ghosts to satirize men and manners; others straightforwardly examine beliefs and practices. Altogether, they draw a portrait of the time unmatched in scope and variety. Selections are organized thematically and include a contextualizing preface. An introduction appraises Ji's own career and the atmosphere in which he lived."--Goodreads.com
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ISBN
9789629969585 (electronic bk.)
9629969580 (electronic bk.)
9789629966010
9629966018
Note
Translation of: Yue wei cao tang bi ji.
Translation of: 閱微草堂筆記.
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