The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales (eBook)

Juwen Zhang (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
240 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22506-7 (ISBN)

Infos

A delightful collection of modern Chinese talesThe Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales brings together forty-two magical Chinese tales, most appearing for the first time in English. These stories have been carefully selected from more than a thousand originally published in the early twentieth century under the pseudonyms Lin Lan and Lady Lin Lan-previously unknown in the West, and now acclaimed as the Brothers Grimm of China.The birth of the tales began in 1924, when one author, Li Xiaofeng, published a set of literary stories under the Lin Lan pen name, an alias that would eventually be shared by an editorial team. Together, this group gathered fairy tales (tonghua) from rural regions across China. Combining traditional oral Chinese narratives with elements from the West, the selections in this collection represent different themes and genres-from folk legends to comic tales. Characters fall for fairies, experience predestined love, and have love/hate relationships with siblings. Garden snails and snakes transform into cooking girls, and dragon daughters construct houses. An introduction offers historical and social context for understanding the role that the Lin Lan stories played in modern China. Appendixes include information on tale types and biographies of the writers and contributors.The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales is a captivating testament to the power of storytelling.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales
• Reihe/Serie: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales
• Übersetzer: Juwen Zhang
• Vorwort: Jack Zipes
• Zusatzinfo: 12 b/w illus. 2 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: A Book Of • Advertising • American Council of Learned Societies • Andrei Codrescu • author • Berthold Auerbach • Book • Brothers Grimm • Cat • cat and dog • Cathode Ray • cinnabar • City God (China) • Clothing • coffin • concerned • Confucianism • cover her face • Deep sea • delicacy • Die Gartenlaube • Dragon robe • Drinking • duan chengshi • East Room • Edition (book) • electric charge • Electromagnetic radiation • Electron Microscope • Everyday life • fairyland • Fairy tale • Fiction • fisherman • fish soup • folk and fairy tales • Folklore • Franco-Prussian War • Frederick Sanger • Frederick the Great • Genre • German Literature • Ghost marriage (Chinese) • Ghost sign • Ginseng • handkerchief • Hans Christian Andersen • Hermann Hesse • historical fiction • Imperial examination • Interior design • Intertextuality • Into the West (miniseries) • Jack Zipes • Jean Paul • Jiangsu • jujube • Kurt Schwitters • Lac repressor • leash • Literary criticism • Literature • loquat • love at first sight • Lu Xun • Lu Xun (Three Kingdoms) • Magnetic field • Mainland China • Maria Tatar • Marina Warner • Marry You • Mass murder • meal • microscope • Millet • modernism • Molecule • mother courage • Nanometre • Naomi Mitchison • narrative • nation state • New Culture Movement • newlywed • new society • Novel • novelist • novella • Nucleic acid double helix • Nucleic acid sequence • Nucleotide • Old Book (ghost) • Oliver Goldsmith • oral storytelling • Oral tradition • Oscar Wilde • Peking University • pen name • Philip Pullman • Philistinism • plough • Poet • Poetry • Porcelain • Porridge • Prose • proverb • Publication • Publishing • Qingming Festival • randomness • rapeseed • readability • rice pudding • rice wine • Rip van Winkle • Risk • romantic nationalism • Russian Fairy Tale • Sake • Sanger sequencing • Satire • Self-Assembly • Silver coin • Small Pond (Innsbruck) • Snake worship • sock • spouse • stepmother • Sweet Pea • Sympathy • Tale of two brothers • Taoism • Textile • The Telling • Tian • Torpor • traditional chinese characters • Travels (book) • Trickster • tung oil • Two Ladies • Washington Irving • wheelbarrow • whole genome sequencing • Wilhelm Raabe • Wok • Writer • Writing • writing system • Wunsiedel • X-Ray • Ye Shengtao • ye xian • Your Face • Zhang Guolao • Zhangqiu • Zhejiang • Zhou Zuoren
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22506-0 / 0691225060
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22506-7 / 9780691225067