Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader Volume 2 Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader Volume 2

Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader Volume 2

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Publisher Description

This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator's notes for these twelve tales provide insights into many aspects of Tang material culture and medieval thought, including Buddhism and Daoism.

In addition to meticulously annotated translations, the book offers original texts (with some textual notes), and commentaries in the form of translator's notes, thereby joining the first volume of Tang tales as the only collections that introduce students to Tang tales while also challenging specialists interested in the field.

This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator's notes for these twelve tales provide insights into many aspects of Tang material culture and medieval thought, including Buddhism and Daoism.

In addition to meticulously annotated translations, the book offers original texts (with some textual notes), and commentaries in the form of translator's notes, thereby joining the first volume of Tang tales as the only collections that introduce students to Tang tales while also challenging specialists interested in the field.
Readership: Academics and students interested in medieval Chinese literature; general public interested in early fiction.
Key Features:Expands the corpus of Tang tales by including several previously untranslated works from the Daoist and Buddhist traditionsIncludes examples of the well-known pseudo-biographies by Liu Zongyuan and a follower of Han YuMany aspects of Tang culture are explained in the notes

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2016
11 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
476
Pages
PUBLISHER
World Scientific Publishing Company
SELLER
Ingram DV LLC
SIZE
45.7
MB

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