Dreams in Chinese Fiction - Spiritism, Aestheticism, and Nationalism

· Throughout Chinese literary history, dreams act as harbingers of important messages and as narrative devices that thoroughly confuse the order between reality and imagination. They centre around promises of healing, including sensual bliss, spiritual enlightenment, and the rejuvenation of China.

List of contents

List of Figures
Preface
1. Philosophical foundations
2. Supernatural dream encounters
3. Tales of the strange
4. Erotic dreams
5. Collective national dreams
Index

About the author

Johannes D. Kaminski is a scholar of comparative literature, interested in the literature of Chinese modernism, German classicism, and global science fiction. He is a SASPRO2-Fellow at the Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Lives and Deaths of Werther: Interpretation, Translation and Adaptation in Europe and East Asia (2023).

Product details

• Authors: Johannes D. Kaminski
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2025
• EAN: 9781032772196
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3277219-6
• No. of pages: 114
• Series: Routledge Focus on Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Regional Studies, Literary studies: general, Regional / International studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies