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As New in J As New jacket. 8vo Dust Jacket Condition: As New. xix, 279 pp, acknowledgments, preface, tables, Chronology: The Ming Reigns, note about Romanization, 1. Introduction; 2. The Pattern of History: Dynastic Cycle and Poitical Legitmacy; 3. Mand and History: Historical Figures and Legendary Heroes; 4. Ethical Values and Sociopolitical Order; 5. Ideals and Reality: The Despotic Imperial Institution; 6. The Cosmic and Religious Order; 7. Conclusion: The Interplay between Elite and Popular Traditions; notes, glossary, selected bibliography, index. First Edition, 1990. "In this book, the author maintains that the historical novels blended legends with historical fact, making them a medium of interplay between the elite and popular traditions. This combination of inflluences in the historical novels was especially significant during the Ming dynasty because of the rise of both an urban culture of great refinement and diversity and a popularizing vernacular designed to promote learning among all people. Those two exuberant movements came together in the historical novel to propagate the difficult and complex Official Histories of the governing elite, as well as to adapt unofficial histories and fictious narratives, thus opening the way to the influence of the common people in literature. This book is the first study of the novels from a historical standpoint. Combining traditional historical research with new source material of the historical novels and with analytical strategies, the author creates a three-eimensional picture of the 'historical world' of the MIng people. She compares issues of the dynastic cycle and political legitimacy of a regime, ethics in the relations between historical personages and legendary heroes, ideals of government and grandiose institutions, and supernatural power and the justice of history that emerged from the historical novels with those in the Official Histories and Confucian canon." from the jacket flap. Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine. ~Click on BOOKSTORES to browse our extensive listings of similar titles in Literary Criticism~
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