Passion, Love, and Qing examines the vitality of Peony Pavilion, the most famous drama in Ming China (1368-1644), through four essays and an extensive Glossary of specific terms and expressions relate
Collected in two volumes are short tales and vignettes written in the 18th century China, a miscellany of sorts, leaning strongly to supernatural tales and often blackly humorous. The introduction des
In Treasury of Laughs Hsu Pi-ching reconstructs the Chinese original and provides the only complete annotated English translation of Feng Menglong’sXiaofu, a 17th-century anthology of traditional Chin
This book is a collection of studies on subjectivity and agency in medieval and early modern philosophy. The individual chapters address the topic from the point of view of cognitive psychology and mo
