1st Edition
Dreams in Chinese Fiction Spiritism, Aestheticism, and Nationalism
By Johannes D. Kaminski
Copyright 2025
132 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
132 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
132 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book considers the contemporary political formula of the “Chinese Dream” in the light of the treatment of dreams in Chinese literary history since antiquity. Sinic literary and philosophical texts document an extensive spectrum of dream possibilities: starting with Zhuangzi’s eminent butterfly dream, an early example of the inversion of the dreamer’s reality, through to confusing visions of... Read more
List of Figures
Preface
1. Philosophical foundations
2. Supernatural dream encounters
3. Tales of the strange
4. Erotic dreams
5. Collective national dreams
Index
Biography
Johannes D. Kaminski is a scholar of comparative literature, interested in the literature of Chinese modernism, German classicism, and global science fiction. He is a SASPRO2-Fellow at the Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Lives and Deaths of Werther: Interpretation, Translation and Adaptation in Europe and East Asia (2023).
