New Account Of Tales Research Articles

Features of "Male Beauties" in China During the Second and Fourth Centuries as Depicted in "A New Account of Tales of the World ()".

Features of "Male Beauties" in China During the Second and Fourth Centuries as Depicted in "A New Account of Tales of the World ()".

중국 고전문학 IP의 문화콘텐츠 개발 사례 연구

The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility of utilizing classical literature as a cultural archetype, focusing on the Chinese short-form animation series “A New Account of Tales of the World(世說新語).” To this end, the overall characteristics of representative Chinese cultural contents using classical literature were reviewed. In addition, we tried to find a trans-media storytelling method that can be applied in Korea by analyzing success stories through the narrative of “A New Account of Tales of the World” and media utilization strategies. In particular, Tencent's all-round multimedia platform strategy brought critical and public response to the short-form animation series. This work can be said to be an excellent success story in attempting various reinterpretations and recreations for a successful transition to a multimedia platform while inheriting and preserving the original value of classical literature.

«Сумма мудрости» Фэн Мэнлуна как источник исследования китайской стратагемной мысли

Studies of Chinese stratagem thinking in Russia still do not take into account works created in line with the Confucian philosophical tradition. “A Complete Book of Wisdom” by Feng Menglong (1574–1646) can be regarded as a collection of stratagems. The grounds for this assessment may be found in traditional bibliographic descriptions and the modern research and publishing tradition. The fi rst edition was published in 1626, the supplemented edition – in 1634. Formally, “A Complete Book of Wisdom” can be referred to encyclopediasleishu. The text is not a continuous narrative, but consists of individual short stories; the number depends on the edition, from 1061 to 1236. Each story describes a precedent for the application of a stratagem. The period of the narration covers years from ancient times to the Ming Dynasty. Feng Menglong selected proper stories, edited them, and added his own comments. Typologically, similar stories are organized into separate sections (28 in total), which, in turn, are organized into chapters (10 in total). One chapter contains from two to four sections. “A Complete Book of Wisdom” retains the features of the “A New Account of Tales of the World” by Liu Yiqing (403–444), which are characterized by a value classifi cation of people’s deeds. All the stories are arranged according to the principle of “from the best to the worst”. Feng Menglong wrote a large preface to the entire work, and provided extended prefaces to each chapter. Each section is preceded by a brief explanation. Feng Manlong’s own ideological views can be discovered as the paratextual elements: prefaces and commentaries. The article consists of two parts. The fi rst part is devoted to the description of the peculiarities of the narrative language of “A Complete Book of Wisdom”, as well as the analysis of the socio-philosophical issues that stimulated the creation of this work. On the basis of quotation from classics in Feng Menglong’s works two types of author’s meaning formation are revealed. The author of the paper shows transformation of ethical models of Sung neo-Confucianism and the changing status of the category ‘wisdom’ in Feng Menglong’s ideological program. The second part of the article offers the author’s commented translation of Feng Menglong’s general preface to “A Complete Book of Wisdom” and ten prefaces to each chapter.

The Power of Nostalgia: Memory, Identity, and Authority in the Shishuo xinyu

Abstract The Shishuo xinyu 世說新語 (A New Account of Tales of the World) is a collection of anecdotes concerning extraordinary historical figures active in the second through fourth centuries. This article highlights and explores the importance of the Shishuo xinyu as cultural memory. In the collection, the public display and use of personal memory of the cultural past are taken as means to preserve cultural legacy, construct cultural identity, and establish cultural authority in the elite literati community. Cultural memory gained much significance after the migration of the Western Jin 西晉 (265–316) royal house and aristocratic families to the south after its fall. On one hand, shared memory and the sharing of memory of the past created an unbroken chain of cultural legacy and secured the elite literati's cultural identities in a “continuous” tradition; on the other hand, personal memory and the monopoly of memory were crucial tools to claim cultural privilege in the highly competitive community of elite literati. The peculiar nature of the anecdote as a cross between private and public matters, as well as between local and universal knowledge, lends itself perfectly to carrying out the various social functions of cultural memory. The attention to cultural memory in the Shishuo xinyu was not an accidental or isolated phenomenon. Its sentimental and personal approach to the past reflects the prevailing cultural nostalgia in writings by elite literati of the fourth and fifth centuries.

论《世说新语》在韩传播的三个问题

Focusing on the poetry and prose writings by Choi Chi-won(857-900), Lee Kyu-bo(1168-1241), and Heo Gyun(1569-1618), this paper addresses three issues in the history of the dissemination of Shi shuo xin yu (《世说新语》:A New Account of Tales of the World) in Korea during the Unified Silla dynasty(668-901), the Goryeo dynasty(918-1392), and the Joseon dynasty(1392-1897). This paper draws the conclusion that, no later than the ninth century of late the Unified Silla dynasty, via Choi Chi-won’s poems and prose writings, characters and allusions from Shi shuo xin yu were already seen in Korea and Korean literature in a great number. Re-examining and modifying the existing evidence and argumentation, this paper re-confirms the previous finding that Shi shuo xin yu was directly imported to Korea in its complete form during the Goryeo dynasty. In the Joseon dynasty, Heo Gyun, whose name was veiled in some primary materials, made a great contribution in the importation of an important edition of Sh ishuo xin yu bu (《世说新语补》:Supplement to A New Account of Tales of the World) from the Ming dynasty. In addition to an examination of the above-mentioned issues in the dissemination of Shi shuo xin yu in Korea, this paper also put forward reflections on some fundamental methodological problems such as how to describe and evaluate the classic’s cross-regional dissemination and problems to be considered when using primary materials.

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Previous article FreeBack CoverFull TextPDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWang Jung and Bitter Plums (An Ancient Chinese Tale Illustrating the Idea of the Efficient Market Hypothesis)When Wang Jung was in his seventh year, he was once playing with other little boys when they spied a plum tree by the side of the road with so much fruit the weight was breaking the branches. All the boys raced over to pick the plums. Jung alone remained unmoved. When someone asked him about it, he replied “If the tree is by the side of the road and still has so much fruit, this means they must be bitter plums.” When they picked them, they found it indeed to be the case.[I-ch’ing Liu, A New Account of Tales of the World (Shih-shuo his-nyü), with commentary by Liu Chun; translated with introduction and notes by Richard B. Mather (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1976), chap. 6, p. 181]Suggested by Te Bao Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Political Economy Volume 126, Number 4August 2018 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/699947 Views: 68 © 2018 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Research On Phenomenon of ‘Handsome Male’ appeared in 『A New Account of Tales of the World』

The Research On Phenomenon of ‘Handsome Male’ appeared in 『A New Account of Tales of the World』

In the Shadows of “A New Account of Tales of the World”

We all have many deeply imbedded memories of studying classical Chinese literature in graduate school. For us at the University of Washington, nothing is quite as memorable as David Knechteges’ ess...

Deciphering the reclusive landscape: a study of Wen Zheng-Ming's 1533 album of the Garden of the Unsuccessful Politician

The sixteenth century was a period of transition in both art and garden making in China. The productive landscape of agriculture characterizing the early and mid Ming gardens was gradually substitu...

Shih-shuo Hsin-yu: A New Account of Tales of the World

Shih-shuo hsin-yu (A New Account of Tales of the World), compiled by Liu I-ch'ing (403-444), is a collection of anecdotes, short conversations, and pithy observations on personalities who lived in China between about 150 and 420 A.D. Mather's classic translation incorporates the commentary of Liu Chun (461-521), adding invaluable information through citations from lost works of the third and fourth centuries.The new edition introduces numerous revisions to this first complete English translation of the work.Richard B. Mather is Professor Emeritus of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Minnesota. His published works include articles on Six Dynasties literature and books on Shen Yueh and Lu Kuang.

Spirit and Self in Medieval China: The Shih-shuo hsin-yü and Its Legacy (review)

Reviewed by: Spirit and Self in Medieval China: The Shih-shuo hsin-yü and Its Legacy Keith N. Knapp (bio) Nanxiu Qian . Spirit and Self in Medieval China: The Shih-shuo hsin-yü and Its Legacy. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. 520 pp. Paperback $32.95, ISBN 0-8248-2397-4. Like no other text, Liu Yiqing's (403-444) Shishuo xinyu (A new account of tales of the world) reproduces the rarefied atmosphere of the late Eastern Han and Wei-Jin (150-420) salons in which sophisticated people demonstrated their worth through witty and sharp exchanges with each other. Students of early medieval China have constantly plumbed this work's rich and voluminous anecdotes for insights into the values and lives of this period's elite, yet rarely do we think about the book's overall purpose or the function of its thirty-six categories of classification. By undertaking the first book-length analysis of this seminal work's context and goals, Nanxiu Qian has done us all a great service. As if that was not enough, she also examines its literary legacy, in the form of thirty-five imitative works, which date from the Tang all the way to the twentieth century. On the basis of its vast scope and prodigious effort alone, this work is worthy of applause. Yet, it is precisely its ambition to cover so much territory that causes her argument to come up short in many places. Qian's basic contention is that the Shishuo xinyu is an objective and comprehensive study of human character that endeavors to display the unique personalities, or the "authentic selves," of the 626 figures that appear within it. Each of the thirty-six chapters represents a different behavioral trait. Thus, by placing the same character in many different chapters, the author reveals separate aspects of his or her personality. Also, by placing the characters in dramatic confrontations with each other, the author highlights their different traits, thereby indicating [End Page 242] what is unique to each. As for the text's enduring popularity, it is because literati of succeeding ages who were dissatisfied with the status quo found the Shishuo xinyu's emphasis on refinement, sophistication, freedom, and iconoclasm to be both refreshing and useful for their own self-fashioning. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1, which is comprised of three chapters, examines the practice of character appraisal, which set the conditions for the creation of the Shishuo xinyu. Part 2, which contains two chapters, focuses on the categories that the text uses to characterize the protagonists in its tales and the precise methods by which it conveys their unique selves. Part 3, the longest, with five chapters, charts the text's legacy by surveying its later imitations. Chapter 1 begins by examining the history of character appraisal, a practice in which an elite evaluator would orally sum up an elite "evaluatee's inner qualities in response to the outer world" (p. 25). Qian shows how, in the Eastern Han, this practice went from a means of recommending qualified men for office based on Confucian criteria to, in the Wei-Jin period, a private practice in which members of the elite would judge each other on the degree to which they revealed their true selves. Chapter 2 portrays the Wei-Jin spirit that infuses the Shishuo xinyu. Due to the elite's growing self-awareness and the influence of xuanxue (study of the mysteries) metaphysics, people strove to be unique and to have others recognize their uniqueness. This led them to question Confucian categories and search for subtler ways to classify the multitude of personality types. This search is what motivated the writing of the Shishuo xinyu. In chapter 3, Qian argues that traditional bibliographers placed this work in the catchall category of xiaoshuo ("minor persuasions") merely because they had no other place to put it. Their difficulty stemmed from the fact that it was a work like no other; thus, Qian believes it belonged to a genre all its own, which is now known as Shishuo ti (works with the Shishuo xinyu framework). Qian hits her stride in the two chapters that...

Milk and Scent: Works About Women in the Shishuo Xlvyu Genre

Abstract"Milk and Scent" presents an interdisciplinary study of two Chinese works about women, both written after the genre of the famed Six Dynasties work, the Shishuo xinyu (A new account of tales of the world), and therefore entitled Nü Shishuo (Women's Shishuo). The two authors, one a man and the other a woman, both lived during the late imperial period and each endeavored to establish a female value system upon their disappointment with men and conventional patriarchal values. Caused by their different gender, social, and cultural positions, their viewpoints about the values of women's life conflicted, coincided, and interacted with each other. Occupying the center of this joint venture were two pivotal elements associated unmistakenably with the female body-milk and scent-the fluid and penetrating essence of which connected the female body to the rest of the world, and hence defined the value relationships in between.

Shih-shuo Hsin-yü: A New Account of Tales of the World

Shih-shuo Hsin-yü: A New Account of Tales of the World

Shih-shuo Hsin-yü: A New Account of Tales of the World. By Liu I-Ch'ing, with commentary by Llu Chün; translated and annotated by Richard B. Mather. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1976. xxxii, 726 pp. Notes, Biographical Notices, Glossary, Abbreviations, Bibliography, Index. $35.00

Shih-shuo Hsin-yü: A New Account of Tales of the World. By Liu I-Ch'ing, with commentary by Llu Chün; translated and annotated by Richard B. Mather. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1976. xxxii, 726 pp. Notes, Biographical Notices, Glossary, Abbreviations, Bibliography, Index. $35.00 - Volume 37 Issue 2

Shih-shuo Hsin-yü: A New Account of Tales of the World. By Liu I-Ch'ing, with commentary by Llu Chün; translated and annotated by Richard B. Mather. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1976. xxxii, 726 pp. Notes, Biographical Notices, Glossary, Abbreviations, Bibliography, Index. $35.00

Shih-shuo Hsin-yü: A New Account of Tales of the World. By Liu I-Ch'ing, with commentary by Llu Chün; translated and annotated by Richard B. Mather. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1976. xxxii, 726 pp. Notes, Biographical Notices, Glossary, Abbreviations, Bibliography, Index. $35.00

Shih-shuo hsin-yüShih-shou hsin-Yü: A New Account of Tales of the World. Liu I-ch'ing, Liu Chün , Richard B. Mather

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsShih-shuo hsin-yü Shih-shou hsin-Yü: A New Account of Tales of the World . Liu I-ch'ing, Liu Chün , Richard B. Mather Daniel L. OvermyerDaniel L. Overmyer Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by History of Religions Volume 17, Number 2Nov., 1977 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/462788 Views: 2Total views on this site Copyright 1977 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Richard B. Mather (tr.): Shih-shuo hsin-yü, A new account of tales of the world, by Liu I-ch'ing with commentary by Liu Chün. xxxii, 726 pp. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, [1976]. $35.

Richard B. Mather (tr.): Shih-shuo hsin-yü, A new account of tales of the world, by Liu I-ch'ing with commentary by Liu Chün. xxxii, 726 pp. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, [1976]. $35.

Shih-shuo Hsin-yü: A New Account of Tales of the World

"Shih-shuo hsin-yu (A New Account of Tales of the World), " compiled by Liu I-ch'ing (403-444), is a collection of anecdotes, short conversations, and pithy observations on personalities who lived in China between about 150 and 420 A.D. Mather's classic translation incorporates the commentary of Liu Chun (461-521), adding invaluable information through citations from lost works of the third and fourth centuries.The new edition introduces numerous revisions to this first complete English translation of the work.Richard B. Mather is Professor Emeritus of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Minnesota. His published works include articles on Six Dynasties literature and books on Shen Yueh and Lu Kuang."