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  • Real Life in China at the Height of Empire:Revealed by the Ghosts of Ji Xiaolan
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  • 作者: David E. Pollard著
  • 出版社:中文大學出版社
  • 出版年:2014
  • ISBN:9789629966010
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 Toward the end of the eighteenth century Ji Xiaolan, widely regarded as the most eminent scholar and foremost wit of his age, published five collections of anecdotes and discourses centring on the interaction between the mundane and spirit worlds, but also including purely earthly life stories and happenings. Some items represent Ji’s own thought and experiences, but the majority were supplied by others, Ji acting only as recorder. Settings range socially from the milieux of peasants, servants and merchants to those of governors and ministers, and geographically extend to the far reaches of the Qing empire. Contents may dwell on comedy or tragedy, cruelty or kindness, corruption or integrity, erudition or ignorance, credulity or scepticism; several items borrow ghost stories to satirize men and manners; some straightforwardly examine current beliefs and practices. Taken together, this miscellany presents a picture of the contemporary world unmatched in its scope and variety of perspectives, and in this way comes nearer to depicting “real life” than novels or institutional histories.

  Professor David Pollard’s masterful translation has made this well-known Chinese classic by Ji Xiaolan, a Qing dynasty high official and man of letters, more accessible to the Western readers. From the author’s five collections of notebooks or “jottings” Pollard has selected the most fascinating accounts, in particular those of “The Supernatural and the Curious” (Part I). A ready successor to Pu Songling’s Liaozhai zhiyi (Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio) but more humanly appealing, the book offers a kaleidoscope of everyday life in eighteenth-century China in all its quotidian and fantastic dimensions. An absorbing read, both enlightening and entertaining.

—Leo Ou-fan Lee, The Sin Wai Kin Professor of Chinese Culture, The Chinese University of Hong Konga

  At the end of the eighteenth century, China stood on the eve of a bruising encounter with the wider world that would leave lasting effects. No one better to capture the way things were than a writer with such remarkable encounters with the emperor and the nation’s greatest minds, as well as those who lived on the fringes of empire, and no better translator than David Pollard, who has worked with concise Chinese prose, throughout a long and distinguished academic career. This book is a pleasurable read of scholarly importance, and will become an instant classic among general readers and specialists alike.

—Timothy Barrett, Professor Emeritus of East Asian History, SOAS

作者簡介

David E. Pollard

  David E. Pollard, now retired, was formerly Professor of Chinese in the University of London and thereafter Professor of Translation in The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His principal fields of research and publication have been modern Chinese literature, classical Chinese prose and translation studies. Books published by The Chinese University Press have been The True Story of Lu Xun (2002) and Zhou Zuoren: Selected Essays (2006); his The Chinese Essay (1999) was published by the Research Centre for Translation, also CUHK.

  • List of Illustrations(第ix頁)
  • Introduction(第xi頁)
  • Illustrations(第xxxiii頁)
  • Part I:The Supernatural and the Curious(第1頁)
    • 1 Spirits, Spectres and Demons(第3頁)
    • 2 Ghosts(第20頁)
    • 3 Hauntings(第47頁)
    • 4 Foxes(第52頁)
    • 5 Fortune-telling(第68頁)
    • 6 Beyond Belief(第87頁)
    • 7 Reincarnation(第100頁)
    • 8 Curiosities(第104頁)
    • 9 The Wild West(第111頁)
  • Part II:Th e Offi cial’s Milieu(第121頁)
    • 10 Officialdom(第123頁)
    • 11 Legal Dilemmas and Disputes(第135頁)
    • 12 Yamen Staff(第152頁)
    • 13 Servants(第160頁)
  • Part III:Family and Friends(第173頁)
    • 14 Hearth and Home(第175頁)
    • 15 Piety and Paragons(第186頁)
    • 16 Love Pledged and Blighted(第195頁)
    • 17 Friends and False Friends(第210頁)
    • 18 Personal(第217頁)
  • Part IV:A Mirror on Society(第223頁)
    • 19 Dogma and Dogmatists(第225頁)
    • 20 Morality(第239頁)
    • 21 Pedants(第260頁)
    • 22 Women(第264頁)
    • 23 Homosexuality(第281頁)
    • 24 Impersonation(第290頁)
    • 25 Fraud(第296頁)
    • 26 Merchants(第304頁)
    • 27 Bandits, Brigands and Robbers(第309頁)
    • 28 Physical Prowess(第320頁)
    • 29 Jesuits in China(第325頁)
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