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Stories to Awaken the World, the first complete translation of Xingshi hengyan, completes the publication in English of the famous three-volume set of Feng Menglong's popular Chinese-vernacular stories. These tales, which come from a variety of sources (some dating back centuries before their compilation in the seventeenth century), were assembled and circulated by Feng, who not only saved them from oblivion but raised the status of vernacular literature and provided material for authors of the great Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) novels to draw upon. This trilogy has been compared to Boccaccio's Decameron and the stories of A Thousand and One Nights. Peopled with scholars, emperors, ministers, generals, and a gallery of ordinary men and women - merchants and artisans, prostitutes and courtesans, matchmakers and fortune-tellers, monks and nuns, thieves and imposters - the stories provide a vivid panorama of the bustling world of late imperial China. The longest volume in the Sanyan trilogy, Stories to Awaken the World is presented in full here, including sexually explicit elements often omitted from Chinese editions.Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang have provided a rare treat for English readers: an unparalleled view of the art of traditional Chinese short fiction. As with the first two collections in the trilogy, Stories Old and New and Stories to Caution the World, their excellent renditions of the forty stories in this collection are eminently readable, accurate, and lively. They have included all of the poetry that is scattered throughout the stories, as well as Feng Menglong's interlinear and marginal comments, which convey the values shared among the Chinese cultural elite, point out what original readers of the collection were being asked to appreciate in the writer's art, and reveal Feng's moral engagement with the social problems of his day. The Yangs's translations rank among the very finest English versions of Chinese fiction from any period.For other titles in the collection go to http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/ming.html

Feng, Menglong, --- Feng, Meng-lung, --- Feng, Mung-lung, --- Phùng, Mộng Long, --- Fėn, Mėnlun, --- Fū, Bōryō, --- Hyō, Muryū, --- 馮夢龍, --- 冯梦龙, --- Long, Ziyou, --- Lung, Tzu-yu, --- 龙子犹, --- Feng, Youlong, --- Feng, Yu-lung, --- 馮猶龍, --- 冯犹龙, --- Boku, Kansai, --- 墨憨斋, --- Mohanzhaizhuren, --- Mo-han-chai-chu-jen, --- 墨憨斋主人, --- Cinu, --- Tzʻu-nu, --- 词奴, --- Guqusanren, --- Ku-chʻü-san-jen, --- 顾曲散人, --- Pingpinggezhuren, --- Pʻing-pʻing-ko-chu-jen, --- 平平阁主人, --- Wu'aijushi, --- Wu-ai-chü-shih, --- 无碍居士, --- Ranweng, --- 髯翁, --- Feng, Eryou, --- 冯耳犹 , --- Feng, Ziyou, --- Feng, Tzu-yu, --- 冯子犹 , --- Maoyuanwaishi, --- 茂苑外史, --- Zhanzhanwaishi, --- 詹詹外史, --- Zhang, Wujiu, --- 张无咎, --- Lütianguanzhuren, --- 绿天馆主人, --- Longxikeyijushi, --- 陇西可一居士, --- Maoyuanyeshi, --- 茂苑野史, --- Xiangyuejuzhuren, --- 香月居主人, --- Baowenglaoren, --- 抱瓮老人, --- Xiaohuazhuren, --- 笑花主人, --- Mao yuan ye ren, --- Mao yüan yeh jen, --- Fubaizhuren, --- Fu-pai-chu-jen, --- 浮白主人, --- S16/0418 --- S16/0450 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional novels: Ming: studies, texts and translations --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional tales and short stories (incl. Zhanguoce; Liaozhai) essays, letters, prose: texts and translations --- feng, meng long --- 冯梦龙 --- 馮夢龍

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Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong's Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best of Feng's three such collections and was a pivotal work in the development of vernacular fiction. The stories are valuable as examples of early fiction and for their detailed depiction of daily life among a broad range of social classes. The stories are populated by scholars and courtesans, spirits and ghosts, Buddhist monks and nuns, pirates and emperors, and officials both virtuous and corrupt. The streets and abodes of late-Ming China come alive in Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang's smooth and colorful translation of these entertaining tales. Stories Old and New has long been popular in China and has been published there in numerous editions. Although some of the stories have appeared in English translations in journals and anthologies, they have not previously been presented sequentially in thematic pairs as arranged by Feng Menglong. This unabridged translation, illustrated with a selection of woodcuts from the original Ming dynasty edition and including Feng's interlinear notes and marginal comments, as well as all of the verse woven throughout the text, allows the modern reader to experience the text as did its first audience nearly four centuries ago. For other titles in the collection go to http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/ming.html

Feng, Menglong, --- Feng, Meng-lung, --- Feng, Mung-lung, --- Phùng, Mộng Long, --- Fėn, Mėnlun, --- Fū, Bōryō, --- Hyō, Muryū, --- 馮夢龍, --- 冯梦龙, --- Long, Ziyou, --- Lung, Tzu-yu, --- 龙子犹, --- Feng, Youlong, --- Feng, Yu-lung, --- 馮猶龍, --- 冯犹龙, --- Boku, Kansai, --- 墨憨斋, --- Mohanzhaizhuren, --- Mo-han-chai-chu-jen, --- 墨憨斋主人, --- Cinu, --- Tzʻu-nu, --- 词奴, --- Guqusanren, --- Ku-chʻü-san-jen, --- 顾曲散人, --- Pingpinggezhuren, --- Pʻing-pʻing-ko-chu-jen, --- 平平阁主人, --- Wu'aijushi, --- Wu-ai-chü-shih, --- 无碍居士, --- Ranweng, --- 髯翁, --- Feng, Eryou, --- 冯耳犹 , --- Feng, Ziyou, --- Feng, Tzu-yu, --- 冯子犹 , --- Maoyuanwaishi, --- 茂苑外史, --- Zhanzhanwaishi, --- 詹詹外史, --- Zhang, Wujiu, --- 张无咎, --- Lütianguanzhuren, --- 绿天馆主人, --- Longxikeyijushi, --- 陇西可一居士, --- Maoyuanyeshi, --- 茂苑野史, --- Xiangyuejuzhuren, --- 香月居主人, --- Baowenglaoren, --- 抱瓮老人, --- Xiaohuazhuren, --- 笑花主人, --- Mao yuan ye ren, --- Mao yüan yeh jen, --- Fubaizhuren, --- Fu-pai-chu-jen, --- 浮白主人, --- S16/0418 --- S16/0450 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional novels: Ming: studies, texts and translations --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional tales and short stories (incl. Zhanguoce; Liaozhai) essays, letters, prose: texts and translations --- Chinese literature. --- Short stories, Chinese. --- Chinese short stories --- Chinese fiction --- feng, meng long --- 冯梦龙 --- 馮夢龍