Quelling the Demons'' Revolt - A Novel From Ming China

Informationen zum Autor Luo Guanzhong (c. 1330¿c. 1400) is the alleged author of two of China's most famous and beloved works of fiction, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and The Water Margin . Patrick Hanan (1927¿2014) was Victor S. Thomas Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University. He was one of the foremost translators of Chinese fiction from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. Klappentext In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty. Quelling the Demons¿ Revolt is centered on the rebellion led by Wang Ze in 1047¿48, warning of the vulnerability of a world plagued by demonic forces as well as mundane corruption. Zusammenfassung In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty. Quelling the Demons’ Revolt is centered on the rebellion led by Wang Ze in 1047–48, warning of the vulnerability of a world plagued by demonic forces as well as mundane corruption. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Quelling the Demons¿ Revolt Notes

Product details

• Authors: Guanzhong Luo
• Assisted by: David Der-Wei Wang (Introduction), Ellen B. Widmer (Introduction), Patrick Hanan (Translation), Hanan Patrick (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2017
• EAN: 9780231183079
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18307-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, Historical adventure, Fiction in translation, HISTORY / Asia / China, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Chinese, Historical adventure fiction