| Description |
1 online resource (259 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Library Editions: Chinese Literature and Arts Ser. ; v.8 |
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Routledge Library Editions: Chinese Literature and Arts Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dynastic Table -- Introduction -- The Historical Knight-Errant -- The Rise of Knights-Errant -- Their Social Origins -- Their Ideals -- Their Ideological Affinities and Antipathies -- 1. Knights-Errant and Confucians -- 2. Knights-Errant and Legalists -- 3. Knights-Errant and Mohists -- 4. Knights-Errant and Taoists -- Knights-Errant of the Warring States and Early Han Periods (C. 300-120 B.C.) -- Prince Wu-Chi, Hou Ying, and Chu Hai |
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Ching K'o, T'ien Kuang, and Kao Chien-Li -- Chu Chia and Chi Pu -- Chü Meng -- Kuo Hsieh -- Suppression of Knights-Errant by the Han Emperors (C. 180-20 B.C.): Chü Chang -- Knights-Errant in Later History -- 1. Later Han (A.D. 25-220) and Three Kingdoms (220-265) -- Chih Yun -- Wang P'an -- Lu Su -- Tien Wei -- Hsi K'ang -- 2. Chin (Or Tsin) Dynasty (265-419) -- Li Yang -- Tai Jo-ssǔ -- Tsu Ti -- 3. Sui (589-618) and T'ang (618-907) Dynasties -- Tou Chien-Tê -- Kuo Yuan-Chen -- Li po -- 4. Five Dynasties (907-959) -- Huang Tzǔ-Yeh -- 5. Sung Dynasty (960-1279) -- Chiao Chi-Hsün -- Kuo Chin |
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Liu K'ai -- Ts'ao Hsieh -- Wang K'ê-Ming -- 6. Yuan Dynasty (1280-1368) -- Hsü Shih-Yen -- 7. Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) -- Sung K'ê -- Decline and Transformation of Knights-Errant -- Conclusion -- The Knight-Errant in Poetry -- General Characteristics of Chinese Chivalric Poetry -- Descriptions of Knights-Errant -- Poems on Historical Knights -- From Fact to Fiction -- Chivalric Tales in Classical Prose -- 1. Prototypes -- Prince Tan of Yen -- The Maiden of Yueh -- 2. Chivalric Tales of the T'ang Period -- The Curly-Bearded Stranger -- The K'un-Lun Slave -- Nieh Yin-Niang -- Hung-Hsien |
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The Old Man at the Inn -- The Old Man of Lan-Ling -- The Jusi Swordsman -- Ts'ui Shen-ssu's Wife -- Li Kuei-Shou -- Colloquial Tales and Ballads -- 1. Popular Recitals in the T'ang Period (618-907) -- The Capture of Chi Pu -- 2. Story-Telling in the Sung Period (960-1279) -- From Oral Stories to Long Romances (C. 1127-1644) -- Water Margin -- Later Chivalric Fiction (C. 1644-the Present) -- 1. Chivalric-Tales-Cum-Detective-Stories -- The Three Knights-Errant and the Five Altruists -- The Cases of Lord Shih and the Cases of Lord P'eng -- 2. Romances Combining Chivalry With Love |
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A Tale of Chivalrous Love -- A Tale of Heroic Lovers -- 3. Tales of Flying Swordsmen -- The Chivalrous Swordsmen of the Szechwan Mountains (Shu-Shan Chien-Hsia) -- 4. Tales Emphasizing Physical Feats -- Lives of ChivalRous and Altruistic Heroes (Hsia-Ji Ying-Hsiung Chuan) -- 4. The Knight-Errant in the Theatre -- Nature of Traditional Chinese Drama -- Major Schools of Chinese Drama -- 1. Sung and Yuan Southern Drama (C. 1150-1368) -- 2. Yuan Northern Drama (1280-1368) -- 3. Southern Drama and Northern Drama Compared -- 4. Ming and Ch'ing Dramatic Romances (C. 1368-1850) |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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5. The Peking Theatre (C. 1820-the Present) |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000583045 |
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100058304X |
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