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Peony Lantern Tales: Ghostly Encounters in the Early Modern Sinosphere

Peony Lantern Tales: Ghostly Encounters in the Early Modern Sinosphere - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Fumiko JooPublish date:2025-03-31Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Hawaii PressISBN-13:9780824895754ISBN-10:824895754UPC:9780824895754Book Category:Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, HistoryBook Subcategory:Asian, Theater, AsiaBook Topic:Japanese, History & Criticism, JapanSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SC1752VPHW

Peony Lantern Tales: Ghostly Encounters in the Early Modern Sinosphere

"The Story of the Peony Lantern" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347-1433) traveled across lingual, cultural, and geopolitical borders in early modern East Asia. The original tale, set in fourteenth-century Ningbo, China, is one of ghostly seduction and murder, but it continued to transform as it traveled from city to city and in its encounters with characters from other texts, publishing...

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Hawaii PressISBN-13:9780824895754ISBN-10:824895754UPC:9780824895754Book Category:Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, HistoryBook Subcategory:Asian, Theater, AsiaBook Topic:Japanese, History & Criticism, JapanSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SC1752VPHW
Fumiko Jōo is associate professor of Asian studies in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Mississippi State University.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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