Stories to Awaken the World - 9780295989037

Stories to Awaken the WorldA Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 3\nAuthor(s): Feng Menglong, Shuhui Yang, Yunqin Yang\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295989037, 978-0295989037\nSynopsis\nStories to Awaken the World, the first complete translation of Xingshi hengyan, completes the publication in English of the famous three-volume set of Feng Menglong's popular Chinese-vernacular stories. These tales, which come from a variety of sources (some dating back centuries before their compilation in the seventeenth century), were assembled and circulated by Feng, who not only saved them from oblivion but raised the status of vernacular literature and provided material for authors of the great Ming [tel] and Qing [tel] novels to draw upon. This trilogy has been compared to Boccaccio's Decameron and the stories of A Thousand and One Nights. Peopled with scholars, emperors, ministers, generals, and a]