Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature

Released on by
preview-18

  • Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature Book Detail

  • Author :
  • Release Date : 2019-03-18
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Genre : Literary Collections
  • Pages : 274
  • ISBN 13 : 0295744847
  • File Size : 81,81 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature by PDF Summary

Book Description: In literatures worldwide, animal fables have been analyzed for their revealingly anthropomorphic views, but until now little attention has been given to the animal tales of China. The complex, competitive relationship between rodents (vilified as thieves of grain) and the felines with whom they are perennially at war is explored in this presentation of Chinese tales about cats and mice. Master translator Wilt Idema situates them in an overview of animal tales in world literature, in the Chinese literary tradition as a whole, and within Chinese imaginative depictions of animals. The tales demonstrate the animals’ symbolism and their unusually prominent—and verbal—role in the stories. These readings depict cats and mice in conflict, in marital bonds, and in litigation—most centrally in a legal case of a mouse against a cat in the underworld court of King Yama. Many of the stories adopt the perspective of the mice as animals merely trying to survive, while also recognizing that cats are natural hunters. This entertaining volume will appeal to readers interested in Chinese literature and society, comparative literature, and posthumanist consideration of human-animal relations.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature

Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature

File Size : 39,39 MB
Total View : 3471 Views
DOWNLOAD

In literatures worldwide, animal fables have been analyzed for their revealingly anthropomorphic views, but until now little attention has been given to the ani

Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes

Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes

File Size : 52,52 MB
Total View : 8878 Views
DOWNLOAD

Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes reveals China's history and culture through the eyes of ordinary men and women using an interdisciplinary perspective that incorp

Cat and Rat

Cat and Rat

File Size : 86,86 MB
Total View : 7835 Views
DOWNLOAD

Introduces the Chinese zodiac and relates how each of its twelve signs was named for an animal selected by the Jade Emperor.

The Great Race

The Great Race

File Size : 42,42 MB
Total View : 2770 Views
DOWNLOAD

Race with the animals of the Zodiac as they compete to have the years of the Chinese calendar named after them. The excitement-filled story is followed by notes