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'Fengyue meng' and the courtesan novel

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The courtesan novel 'Fengyue meng' (author's preface dated 1848) represents the earliest Chinese city novel, providing literary context for the first Shanghai novel 'Haishang hua liezhuan.' Set in Yangzhou, 'Fengyue meng' also belongs to the realistic type of courtesan novel. 'Fengyue meng' exhibits some continuities with the prior tradition of Yangzhou vernacular and oral narrative, while also inaugurating a new development. Thematic contradictions of Chinese cautionary fiction as well as structural and other aspects of the work are discussed.

Portrayals, Cities and towns, Prostitutes, Prostitutes in literature

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The missionary novels of nineteenth-century China

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Nineteenth-century narratives written in Chinese by Christian missionaries are discussed, with a focus on the development of the missionary novel and its influence on Chinese fiction. Authors include William Milne (1785-1822), Karl Gutzlaff (1803-1851), James Legge (1815-1897), Griffith John (1831-1912), Timothy Richard, John Fryer and Liang Qichao. Translators of Western works into Chinese include Ferdinand Genahr (d. 1864) and William C. Burns (1815-1868).

Christians, Authorship, Missionaries, Christians in China

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The Bible as Chinese literature: Medhurst, Wang tao, and the delegates' version

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The greatest enterprise of the country was initiated by the west, which was the Bible Translation. The aspects, of the Bible having differences in the versions, drove the translators to come up with a new version itself, which is discussed.

United States, Works, Translating and interpreting, Translation (Languages), Chinese literature, Bible (Sacred work), Bible

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