Feng Menglong (1574-1645) was a Chinese vernacular writer/poet of the late Ming Dynasty. He was born in then Changzhou now Wuxian in Jiangsu Privince. Events April 14 - Battle of Mookerheyde. ... // Events January 10 - Archbishop Laud executed on Tower Hill, London. ... The Ming Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644. ... Changzhou (Chinese: 常州) is a prefecture-level city in the Jiang Nan region of the Jiangsu province of China, population up to 4 million. ... Jiangsu (Simplified Chinese: 江è‹; Traditional Chinese: 江蘇; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chiang-su; Postal System Pinyin: Kiangsu) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. ...
Feng was a proponent of the school of Li Zhi (1527-1602) which supported the importance of human feelings and behavior in literature. Most of his literary work was in editing and compiling histories, almanacs, novels, etcetera. Two noteworthy novels of his are Yao Zhuan and Qing Shi. In 1620 he published the Gujin xiaoshuo or Stories Old and New. Events January 5 - Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, was drowned in the Limmat River in Zürich by the Zürich Reformed state church. ... This page is about the year. ...
Works
Ping Yao Zhuan
Qing Shi
Gujin xiaoshuo -(Stories Old and New) published (1620)
also known as Yushin mingyan -(Illustrious Words to Instruct the World)
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Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of FengMenglong's Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China.
This is considered the best of Feng's three such collections and was a pivotal work in the development of vernacular fiction.
This unabridged translation, illustrated with a selection of woodcuts from the original Ming dynasty edition and including Feng's interlinear notes and marginal comments, as well as all of the verse woven throughout the text, allows the modern reader to experience the text as did its first audience nearly four centuries ago.
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