《Yangzhou, A Place in Literature》

《Yangzhou, A Place in Literature》 内容介绍：

One of the famous canal cities of the world and a former center of culture, trade, transportation, and fashion, the old town of Yangzhou evokes romantic bridges, beautiful courtesans, fine gardens, and eccentric painters. It is also remembered as a war-torn ruin aft er the Qing conquest and the Taiping Rebellion, and as a city in decline as trade shift ed to seaports and railways. Yangzhou, A Place in Literature , the first anthology to center on a Chinese city and its local region, offers a wealth of literary, semi-literary, and oral texts representing social life over three hundred years of dramatic change between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. The selections in this volume represent a wide range of literary forms and styles, both elite and popular, with subjects ranging from literature, history, theater, and art to the history of architecture and gardening, and of material culture at large. Readers will come across rarely found details of everyday life, the sights, smells, and sounds of the lanes and teahouses, a world of taverns, pilgrimages, communal baths, fi sh markets, salt merchants, acting troupes, and food in one of the wealthiest cities of imperial China. Each text has an introductory essay and rich textual notes by an expert in the relevant field. The general introduction provides an in-depth discussion of the roles of the local in historical, cultural, literary, and linguistic terms, as mirrored by the wide range of translated sources collected in this volume. The selected texts are historically andintellectually important in their own right, but the volume greatly enhances their collective value by combining them, arranging them in historical sequence, and providing a dense network of cross-references that invite comparisons and reveal contrasts in style, form, focus, and topic. With its compelling accounts of material culture, urban spaces, entertainment, and gender, Yangzhou, A Place in Literature will fascinate scholars and students alike by opening a window to the rich cultural history of Yangzhou. Th e volume can serve as a textbook for courses on traditional and modern Chinese literature, popular culture, the city, or social history. It will be of great interest to scholars of East Asian studies, as well as to those in a variety of comparative fields, such as urban studies, theater studies, and gender studies.

作者Roland Altenburger,Margaret B. Wan,Vibeke Børdahl (Editors)介绍：

Roland Altenburger is professor of East Asian cultural history at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. Margaret B. Wan is associate professor of Chinese literature at the University of Utah, USA. Vibeke Bdegreerdahl is senior researcher at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen University, Denmark.

《Yangzhou, A Place in Literature》 目录大纲：

Revisiting a dream in a classic late-Ming garden: Zheng Yuanxun's "Personal record of the Garden of Shadows" (Yingyuan zi ji, 1637) / Alison Hardie --
Storyteller and adviser: Wu Weiyei's "Biography of Liu Jingting" (Liu Jingting zhuan, 1647) / Rüdiger Breuer --
Society and performance in late-Ming Yangzhou: four essays from Zhang Dai's Dream reminiscences of Tao'an (Tao'an mengyi, 1670s) / Philip Kafalas --
The moral panorama of one place: Shi Chengjin's series of vignettes, "Recent stories of Yangzhou" (Yangzhou jinshi, prefaces, 1726/1729) / Roland Altenburger --
The universe in a nutshell: Wang Zhong's essay, "Dialogue about Guangling" (Guangling dui, 1787) / Marc Winter --
The golden age: depictions of life in Yangzhou in Li Dou's "The pleasure boats of Yangzhou" (Yangzhou huafang lu, (1795) / Lucie Olivová --
Building and gardening practices in eighteenth century Yangzhou: the view from Li Dou's "The pleasure boats of Yangzhou" (Yangzhou huafang lu, (1795) / Winnie Yuen Lai Chan --
Observations of a changing world: Lin Sumen's bamboo branch style songs, "Three hundred poems of Hanjiang" (Hanjiang sanbai yin, 1808) / Roland Altenburger --
Regional fiction: "Clear wind sluice" (Qingfengzha, 1819) / Margaret B. Wan --
Theater for the people in the Yangzhou region: Jiao Xun's "Peasant chats on popular local theater" (Huabu nongtan, 1819) / Colin Mackerras --
Writing about things in the nineteenth century: scholar Zhou's "Dream of Yangzhou" (Yangzhou meng, 1850s) / Antonia Finnane with Fan Xiong --
A Yangzhou novel: Hanshang Mengren's "Dream of romance" (Fengyue meng, preface, 1848) / Patrick Hanan --
Place and personality: Ling Xia's "Song of the eight eccentrics" (Yangzhou ba guai ge, ca 1897) / Michelle Matteini --
A tale of five families between empire and republic: Li Hanqiu's novel, "The tides of Guangling" (Guangling chao, 1909-1919) / Stefan Kuzay --
Food and local place: Zhu Ziqing's essay, "Speaking of Yangzhou" (Shuo Yangzhou, 1934) / Antonia Finnane --
Transformations of local theater: the Yangzhou Opera, "Taking command at age one hundred" (Bai sui gua shuai, 1952-1958) / Liu Zhen and Jiang Ji --
A critical view of the Yangzhou dream: Feng Zikai's essay, "The Yangzhou dream" (Yangzhou meng, 1958) / Sue Zhuang --
Layers of the local in Yangzhou storytelling: Wang Shaotang performs "Wu Song fights the tigers" (Wu Song da hu, 1961) / Vibeke Børdahl --
A chapter in Chinese women's history: Wei Minghua's essay, "The thin horses of Yangzhou" (Yangzhou shouma, 1983) / Antonia Finnane --
Yangzhou village theater: the play, "Pi Fifth celebrates New Year" (Pi Wu guo nian, 1999) in Wei Ren's redaction / Lindy Li Mark.