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*Fictions Of Enlightenment: Journey to the West, Tower of Myriad Mirrors, & Dream of the Red Chamber
LI Qiancheng [Other titles by this author]
Stock ID: 22629
ISBN: 9780824825973
Hawaii University Press 2003 1st Edition
235 x 165mm.Was $79.95. NOW $35.00 264pp
Fictions of Enlightenment is the first book to examine the fascinating and intricate relationship between Buddhism and the development of Chinese vernacular fiction. Qiancheng Li brings Buddhist models to bear on the vision, structure, and narrative form of three classics of late imperial literature - Journey to the West, Tower of Myriad Mirrors, and Dream of the Red Chamber - arguing that by fashioning their plots after the narratives of certain Mahâyâna sutras, the novelists transformed Buddhist concepts into narrative structures. Within the traditional Chinese novel Li even defines a new genre: the fiction of enlightenment. Qiancheng Li is assistant professor of Chinese language and literature at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. 'A compelling and finely written monograph which supercedes all previous studies of these novels that try to elucidate Buddhist reference or meaning. Li's exposition of how Buddhist soteriological patterns - Surfacing in discursive representations of enlightenment or pilgrimage - can modulate to become narrative structures is persuasive, brilliant, and original' - Anthony Yu, University of Chicago. 'Chinese fiction's indebtedness to Buddhism has never before received careful scrutiny. This groundbreaking study of this very important but long-neglected topic is well researched, richly documented, and finely written' - Martin Huang, University of California, Irvine. (For this item please quote stock ID 22629)
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