... Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China. By R O B E R T F O R D CAMPANY. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. xii, 524 pp. $74.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). The zhiguai is a brief prose form describing strange events or creatures; the seminal works of the genre appeared in the Six...

..., temple-visit lyrics, and foxes and ghosts in zhiguai ; in Philosophy and Religion , they include xuanxue , Heavenly Master Daoism, Lingbao scriptures, the meaning of geyi 格義, the Buddhist image of Emperor Wu of Liang, reclusion, and destiny and retribution. The essays collected here also “explore...

... implications, primarily taking up the subject of love and women in Tang chuanqi. He discusses a wide range of materials from earlier narrative traditions (particularly zhiguai ) and from later novels and drama. One of the first problems in addressing such a subject is that of definition: What is meant...

... copious blood on his father's seating mat. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 anomaly account ( zhiguai ) ethnicity gender identity local cult Man peoples migration settler colonialism sexuality social class At the turn of the fifth century, a story about...

... Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China. By R O B E R T F O R D CAMPANY. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. xii, 524 pp. $74.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). The zhiguai is a brief prose form describing strange events or creatures; the seminal works of the genre appeared...

... fourth chapter on genre, The Listener fits readily into a host of different categories, such as zhiguai , biji , and unofficial histories ( yeshi ), defined in part by the multifarious quality of their contents. Perhaps because of the text's complexity, Inglis refrains from using his monograph...

... such as the zhiguai tale, where the fantastic is a symbolic resource. The united self, a psychological construct, in Ding Ling's Sophia's Diary becomes not a foundational concept, but the social inscription of gender difference onto (masculine) worlds of meaning and (feminine) worlds of nonmeaning, and the gendering...

... losing the texture of individual details. He makes a commendable attempt to consider the zhiguai on its own terms. Strange Writing is a dense and very rich study which will be rewarding on many levels for scholars of Chinese literature, culture, and thought. RANIA HUNTINGTON University of Illinois...

... of reading natural signs perhaps parallel in methodology to that of reading ominous events. On the other hand, her almost complete failure even to mention the creation during these centuries of the genre of zhiguai, or accounts of anomalies, is puzzling, since that genre once comprising many thousands...

... argues that Fryer s contest had already brought into being the kind of modern novel advocated by Liang. Rania Huntington shows how the modernity of the late Qing periodical press transformed the traditional zhiguai (tales of marvels) genre into the new categories of news and spectacle...

... appropriating aspects of Chinese zhiguai and chuanqi , tales of the strange and marvelous (or “supernatural”), as one usually does autobiography: to understand the writer's subjectivity or identity. Arakida stages herself as woman of letters and self-critic, speaks as if gender neutral, downplays her...

... history of Arakida Rei (1732–1806) as a woman writer who turned outward to other times and places rather than inward as in autobiography/memoir. Ironically, Sakaki approaches Ayashi no yogatari ( Strange Talks of the Town ), a story collection appropriating aspects of Chinese zhiguai and chuanqi...

... Revolutions"; and W. L. Idema, "The Illusion of Fiction," all in Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 5 (1983). 396 ROBERT E. HEGEL (1) the relatively short fantastic and supernatural tales of the Six Dynasties (220589) and Tang (618-906) periods known as zhiguai ("records of anomalies...

... by Judge Bao, who also has the Royal Cat ( Yumao ) Zhan Zhao on his side. This history of the Five Rats story is an intriguing example of anthropomorphism that links the tales of the miraculous ( zhiguai ) to the narrative of the chivalric ( xiayi ). Chapter 2 traces two mouse stories: the White Mouse...

... the modernity of the late Qing periodical press transformed the traditional zhiguai (tales of marvels) genre into the new categories of news and spectacle. And in a subtle and richly illustrated essay, Catherine Vance Yeh demonstrates that modernity could similarly transform the courtesan into an urban...

... of modernist Shi Zhecun, for example, use of Freudian psychoanalytical assumptions leads not only to psychological realism, but also toward older forms of Chinese literature such as the zhiguai tale, where the fantastic is a symbolic resource. The united self, a psychological construct, in Ding Ling's Sophia's...

... of nine-aperture-based immortality is somewhat compromised by another belief, exempli ed in zhiguai (chronicles of the marvelous), that all things have a spirit and may all become human or divine. 28Chan masters often use very simple yet intensely evocative language to express their grasp of reality...

... biography divination Guo Pu Jin dynasty Jinshu migration Shishuo xinyu Soushen ji zhiguai Southern Dynasties In the early fourth century CE, after the escalation of a series of succession disputes among the imperial Sima clan, the Jin dynasty collapsed and its capital city of Luoyang 洛...

... [Broad records of the Taiping reign] . 10 vols. Beijing : Zhonghua shuju . 李劍國 Li Jianguo . 1993 . Tang Wudai zhiguai chuanqi xulu 唐五代志怪傳奇敘錄 [Bibliographic abstracts of Tang and Five Dynasties zhiguai and chuanqi ]. 2 vols . Tianjin : Nankai daxue chubanshe . 李林甫 Li Linfu...

... Songling 蒲松齡 (1640–1715) and Yuan Mei 袁枚 (1716–97). His philosophically innovative “Tales of the Supernatural” ( zhiguai 志怪) blend the serious and witty, didactic and aesthetic, scholarly yet conversational in inimitable ways (Chan 1998 ). And even in exile he gained fame, writing the first extensive...