TY - BOOK ID - 77942881 TI - Tang dynasty tales PY - 2010 SN - 1283143879 9786613143877 9814287296 9789814287296 9789814287289 9814287288 PB - Singapore Hackensack, N.J. World Scientific DB - UniCat KW - Chinese fiction KW - History and criticism. KW - S16/0450 KW - History and criticism KW - China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional tales and short stories (incl. Zhanguoce; Liaozhai) essays, letters, prose: texts and translations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77942881 AB - This book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the genre of ""Tang"" tales in English, including discussions of the numerous Chinese studies from the last decade. ""Tang Tales"" itself contains the first annotated translations of these famous stories, which are deciphered and interpreted specifically for students and scholars interested in the medieval Chinese literature. Following the model of intertextual readings employed by Glen Dudbridge in ""The Tale of Li Wa"" (Oxford, 1983), the annotation points to the resonances to the classical texts; the translator's notes follo ER -