... 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...

... of Liu Xie's theory of literary interpretation. And, in his account of the phenomena of xian (transcendent) in the early medieval period, Robert Ford Campany lists and cites hagiographies, essays, annals and biographies in standard histories, youxian poetry, and zhiguai as equally relevant...

... 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...

... 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 Dynasties, but they continued...

... to supply any interior coherence. Indeed, as Inglis illustrates in his 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. Alister D...

... was the bureaucratization of the underworld alongside a humanization of ghosts and their existence. These ideas are carried further in chapter 4, which focuses on Anomaly Tales ( zhiguai 志怪) from the Six Dynasties period (ca. 220–589 CE), when, the author argues, ghosts took on a more imaginative, detailed, humanlike...

... 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 Diary becomes not a foundational concept, but the social inscription of gender difference onto (masculine) worlds of meaning and (feminine) worlds...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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 knowledge, and has...

... 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...

... ( zhiguai ) to the narrative of the chivalric ( xiayi ). Chapter 3 discusses the Marriage of the Mouse and the underworld court case of the Mouse vs. the Cat. The marriage of the mouse is a celebration observed in many regions in China as part of the Lunar New Year festivities, and in most cases...

... 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...

... 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 Diary becomes not a foundational concept, but the social inscription...

... 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...

..., there is no work of history dedicated to documenting the ensuing exodus from Luoyang to Jiankang. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 biography divination Guo Pu Jin dynasty Jinshu migration Shishuo xinyu Soushen ji zhiguai Southern Dynasties In the early...

... [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...