The Vernacular World of Pu Songling : Popular Literature and Manuscript Culture in Late Imperial China /

The Vernacular World of Pu Songling : Popular Literature and Manuscript Culture in Late Imperial China /

This study presents a lively world of vernacular writing from Zichuan, Shandong, the home region of Pu Songling (1640-1715). Based on Keio University's Liaozhai Collection, it examines a world of local reading and writing through the manuscripts of village scholars, including those of a topolec...

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Main Author: Lu, Zhenzhen (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Sinica Leidensia ; 173.

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Asian Studies.
Literature and Cultural Studies.

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Call Number: DS501

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments IX
  • List of Maps and FiguresV
  • List of TablesViI
  • ConventionsIII
  • General Introduction
  • 1 Pu Songling and Beyond
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 The World of Pu Songling
  • 1.3 The Author as a Scribe
  • 1.4 A History of Collecting
  • 2 A Corpus from Zichuan
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Beyond Authorship
  • 2.3 An Overview of the Keio Collection
  • 2.4 A Local Manuscript Culture
  • 2.5 Vernacular Writings
  • 3 A Pocket Anthology
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 A Scholar's Notebook
  • 3.3 Games with Words
  • 3.4 A Drum Ballad and Two Texts on Poverty
  • 3.5 Songs on Love and Longing
  • 4 The Rustic Song-Narratives in Reading and Performance
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 A Vernacular Oeuvre
  • 4.3 The Manuscripts
  • 4.4 Colloquial Landscapes
  • 4.5 A Rustic World
  • 5 Vernacular Adaptations
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 From Tales to Song-Narratives
  • 5.3 A Ballad on A Life Divine
  • 5.4 Legend of the Tribulations of Zhang Hongjian
  • 5.5 Imagined Histories
  • 6 Riyong suzi : a Village Primer
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 The Literature of Assorted Characters
  • 6.3 Books from the Keio Collection
  • 6.4 Local Sounds and Unruly Scripts
  • 6.5 On "Boar" and "Butt"
  • 6.6 A Book for Daily Use
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1: The Backside of Pu Songling's Tombstone
  • Appendix 2: Extant Manuscripts in Pu Songling's Hand
  • Appendix 3: The Former Collection of Hirai Masao at Keio University
  • Appendix 4: List of Notebooks in the Ryōsai Bunko
  • Appendix 5: "Scholar Zhang": a Tale from Liaozhai zhiyi
  • Bibliography
  • Index.