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Informationen zum Autor By Pi-Ching Hsu Klappentext Beyond Eroticism translates and analyzes over forty songs and ninety jokes from Child's Folly, a trilogy of popular songs (Hanging Twigs), folk songs (Hill Songs), and jokes (Treasury of Laughs) compiled by Feng Menglong (1574-1646), and giant in late Ming popular literature (1368-1644). Focusing on humor as the predominant characteristic of the "tactically forgotten" collections, the book offers a delightful study of the foibles, eccentricities, and anxieties of a broad cross section of late Ming society. Zusammenfassung Translates and analyzes over forty songs and ninety jokes from "Child's Folly"! a trilogy of popular literature compiled by Feng Menglong. This book offers a study of the foibles! eccentricities! anxieties of a cross section of Ming society! and the inner world of the compiler as he reveals the tensions in his own gender and class conceptions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Notes on Conventions Chapter 3 Prologue Chapter 4 Historicizing the Humor of Child's Folly Chapter 5 Feng Menglong and His World Chapter 6 Hanging Twigs andHill Songs: The Triumph and Trial of Emotions and Desires Chapter 7 Treasury of Laughs: Humorous Satire with a Philosophical Undertone Chapter 8 Epilogue Chapter 9 Bibliography Chapter 10 Glossary of Chinese Characters Chapter 11 Index Chapter 12 About the Author
