1st Edition
Clothing, Food, and Travel Ming Material Culture as Reflected in Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan
By Liu Xiaoyi
Copyright 2024
212 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores the material and cultural history of the Ming Dynasty based on the Chinese magnum opus Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan (literally, The Story of a Marital Fate to Awaken the World), written under the pseudonym of the seventeenth-century writer Xizhou Sheng.
The novel weaves into its narrative, through the characters' personalities and the events it illustrates, important details of... Read more
1. The Clothing Culture and Clothing Choices of the Ming People 2. Luxury Consumption and the Financial System 3. Food Cultures of the Ming 4. Traveling Cultures of the Ming
Biography
Liu Xiaoyi is a professor at the School of Literature, Shandong University, China. She also serves on the Expert Committee of the Shandong Translators Association. She received both her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Dept. of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona. She has published 18 CSSCI and English papers, 5 Chinese monographs, and hosted national and ministerial translation projects. Her bilingual collection, The Past Lingers, presents her own lyrical writings with English translations and Shakespeare’s sonnets in localization rendering.
