Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance - Essays on the Shishuo Xinyu

In his reading of the Shishuo xinyu, the most important anecdotal collection of medieval China, Jack W. Chen presents an extended meditation on the anecdote form, both what it affords in terms of representing a social community and how it provides a space for the rehearsal of certain longstanding philosophical and cultural arguments.

About the author

Jack W. Chen is Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Virginia.

Summary

In his reading of the Shishuo xinyu, the most important anecdotal collection of medieval China, Jack W. Chen presents an extended meditation on the anecdote form, both what it affords in terms of representing a social community and how it provides a space for the rehearsal of certain longstanding philosophical and cultural arguments.

Product details

• Authors: Jack W Chen, Jack W. Chen, Chen Jack W.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780674251175
• ISBN: 978-0-674-25117-5
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series; Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph (HUP); Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism