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The early Chinese text Master Zhuang (Zhuangzi) is well known for its relativistic philosophy and colorful anecdotes. In the work, Zhuang Zhou ca. 300 B.C.E.) dreams that he is a butterfly and wonders, upon awaking, if he in fact dreamed that he was a butterfly or if the butterfly is now dreaming that it is Zhuang Zhou. The text also recounts Master Zhuang's encounter with a skull, which praises the pleasures of death over the toil of living. This anecdote became popular with Chinese poets of the second and third century C.E. and found renewed significance with the founders of Quanzhen Daoism in the twelfth century.The Quanzhen masters transformed the skull into a skeleton and treated the object as a metonym for death and a symbol of the refusal of enlightenment. Later preachers made further revisions, adding Master Zhuang's resurrection of the skeleton, a series of accusations made by the skeleton against the philosopher, and the enlightenment of the magistrate who judges their case. The legend of the skeleton was widely popular throughout the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), and the fiction writer Lu Xun (1881-1936) reimagined it in the modern era. The first book in English to trace the development of the legend and its relationship to centuries of change in Chinese philosophy and culture, The Resurrected Skeleton translates and contextualizes the story's major adaptations and draws parallels with the Muslim legend of Jesus's encounter with a skull and the European tradition of the Dance of Death. Translated works include versions of the legend in the form of popular ballads and plays, together with Lu Xun's short story of the 1930s, underlining the continuity between traditional and modern Chinese culture.

Chinese literature --- Resurrection in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Zhuangzi --- Chuang Tzu --- Chwang Tszĕ --- Dschuang Dsi --- Tchouang-Tseu --- Tschuang-tse --- Tsjwang-Tze --- Tswang Tse --- In literature.

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Drama --- Zhu, Youdun, --- Chu, Yu-tun, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Onder de opeenvolgende dynastieën van het Chinese keizerrijk was literatuur in de eerste plaats een mannenzaak. De literatuur van vrouwen was in vele opzichten marginaal: schrijvende vrouwen namen vaak een uitzonderlijke positie in en hun proza en poëzie vormen slechts een fractie van wat door mannen werd geproduceerd. Toch ontwikkelde zich in de loop van de tijd een eigen hoogwaardige traditie van vrouwenliteratuur. Deze traditie bestaat vooral uit lyrische poëzie, maar omvat ook traktaten, herinneringen en lange vertellingen. Dit boek biedt een representatieve en gevarieerde keuze uit het werk van schrijvende vrouwen uit het keizerlijke China. Hun teksten worden gepresenteerd tegen de achtergrond van eigentijdse biografische en autobiografische bronnen die een onverbloemd inzicht geven in de levensomstandigheden van vrouwen in de traditionele Chinese maatschappij.

Chinese literature --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1-499 --- anno 1800-1999 --- S16/0195 --- S05/0200 --- S11/0720 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Thematic studies --- China: Biographies and memoirs--General and collective --- China: Social sciences--Women's emancipation movement: general and before 1949 --- Women authors, Chinese --- Women authors. --- China --- Chinese women authors --- Women authors --- History --- Writers --- Women's literature --- Book

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'The Pitfalls of Piety for Married Women' shows how problematic the practice of Buddhist piety could be in late imperial China. Two thematically related 'precious scrolls' (baojuan) from the Ming dynasty, The Precious Scroll of the Red Gauze and The Precious Scroll of the Handkerchief, illustrate the difficulties faced by women whose religious devotion conflicted with the demands of marriage and motherhood. These two previously untranslated texts tell the stories of married women whose piety causes them to be separated from their husbands and children.

Bao juan (Buddhist song-tales) --- Chinese drama --- Wives --- Buddhist women --- Women, Buddhist --- Women --- Spouses --- Housewives --- Married women --- Pao chüan (Buddhist song-tales) --- Folk drama, Chinese --- Religious life --- Buddhist piety, Female religiosity, Ming dynasty vernacular literature, Precious Scrolls,.

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