The Vernacular World of Pu Songling
Popular Literature and Manuscript Culture in Late Imperial China
Series: Sinica Leidensia; 173;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 28 August 2025
- ISBN 9789004696815
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages314 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 683 g
- Language English 691
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Short description:
The study sheds light on intertwined realms of local textual transmission, the place of manuscript culture in ordinary literary life, and the role of language and locality in shaping the plural literatures of late imperial China.
MoreLong description:
This study presents a lively world of vernacular writing from Zichuan, Shandong, the home region of Pu Songling (1640–1715). Based on Keio University’s Liaozhai Collection, it examines a world of local reading and writing through the manuscripts of village scholars, including those of a topolectal primer and various song-narratives attributed to the author famed for his classical tales Liaozhai zhiyi.
The study sheds light on intertwined realms of local textual transmission, the place of manuscript culture in ordinary literary life, and the role of language and locality in shaping the plural literatures of late imperial China.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments IX
List of Maps and Figures V
List of Tables VII
Conventions VIII
General Introduction
1 Pu Songling and Beyond
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The World of Pu Songling
1.3 The Author as a Scribe
1.4 A History of Collecting
2 A Corpus from Zichuan
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Beyond Authorship
2.3 An Overview of the Keio Collection
2.4 A Local Manuscript Culture
2.5 Vernacular Writings
3 A Pocket Anthology
3.1 Introduction
3.2 A Scholar’s Notebook
3.3 Games with Words
3.4 A Drum Ballad and Two Texts on Poverty
3.5 Songs on Love and Longing
4 The Rustic Song-Narratives in Reading and Performance
4.1 Introduction
4.2 A Vernacular Oeuvre
4.3 The Manuscripts
4.4 Colloquial Landscapes
4.5 A Rustic World
5 Vernacular Adaptations
5.1 Introduction
5.2 From Tales to Song-Narratives
5.3 A Ballad on A Life Divine
5.4 Legend of the Tribulations of Zhang Hongjian
5.5 Imagined Histories
6 Riyong suzi: a Village Primer
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The Literature of Assorted Characters
6.3 Books from the Keio Collection
6.4 Local Sounds and Unruly Scripts
6.5 On “Boar” and “Butt”
6.6 A Book for Daily Use
Conclusion
Appendix 1: The Backside of Pu Songling’s Tombstone
Appendix 2: Extant Manuscripts in Pu Songling’s Hand
Appendix 3: The Former Collection of Hirai Masao at Keio University
Appendix 4: Notebooks in the Keio Collection
Appendix 5: “Scholar Zhang”: a Tale from Liaozhai zhiyi
Bibliography
Index
