Chinese Literature Podcast
Censure and Celebration: Jiang Xingge Re-Encounters His Pearl Shirt
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- Duración: 0:28:10
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Sinopsis
One of the most acclaimed 话本 (hua ben - vernacular short stories) in Feng Menglong's 1620 collection Stories Old and New (tr. Yang Shuhui and Yang Yunqin). We discuss the question of irony in a story about both marital and extramarital bliss, and explore the reasons behind the story's famously racy details.
