Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2016
Abstract
About the Book
Ch'ing-shih is a lovingly made anthology of love stories, provided we push the limits of definition of "love story" just a little wider than they are usually set. The stories are classified into twenty-four major categories, each further divided into subsections and concluded with a paragraph of commentary. Professor Mowry provides a sampling of the contents of each category but not of each subsection, though the headings themselves are enough to pique our curiosity: shall we turn next to "incomplete resurrections," or "unusual degenerates"? The stories were collected in the early seventeenth century, just a decade or two before the fall of the Ming dynasty, but nine-tenths of them are pre-Ming in origin. Whether the earliest or the most recent stories have the higher artistic value will be a matter for the reader's judgement. -- From the Preface.
About the Author
Hua-yuan Li Mowry is Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Dartmouth College.
About the Electronic Publication
This electronic publication of Chinese Love Stories from Ch'ing-shih was made possible with the permission of the author. University Press of New England created EPUB, MOBI, and PDF files from a scanned copy of the book.
Rights Information
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License © Hua-yuan Li Mowry
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1349/ddlp.1809
Original Citation
Print version: Chinese Love Stories from Ch'ing-shih. Hamden, Connecticut : Archon Books, 1983. ISBN: 9780208019202. PL2698.F4 C425132 1983.
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Mowry, Hua-yuan Li and Feng, Menglong, "Chinese Love Stories from Ch'ing-shih" (2016). Dartmouth Scholarship. 4328.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/4328