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Love and Emotions in Traditional Chinese Literature
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Edited by:
Halvor Eifring
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2004
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Do all cultures and historical periods have a concept corresponding to the English word emotion? This collection of essays is concerned with the closest candidate within the Chinese language, namely the term qíng. What is the meaning of this term in different periods and genres? What are the types of discourse in which it is typically found? This volume contains two essays on the notion of qíng in classical sources, two on Chan Buddhist usage, and two on fiction and drama from the Ming and Qing dynasties. An introductory essay discusses the complex historical development of the term. Together, the essays may be read as a first step towards a conceptual history of one of the key terms in traditional Chinese culture.
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Halvor Eifring, Ph.D. (1993) in Chinese linguistics, University of Oslo, is Professor of Chinese at the University of Oslo. He has published on Chinese language and literature, as well as Norwegian slang and dialects. He is a meditation teacher in Acem School of Meditation and an editor of the Norwegian cultural magazine Dyade.
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'These essays are all solidly researched and clearly written…the volume more than measures up to Eifring’s stated goal as “a first step towards a conceptual history of one of the key terms in traditional Chinese literature.”'
Paul S. Ropp, Nan Nü, 2005.
Paul S. Ropp, Nan Nü, 2005.
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September 13, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9789047412311
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Main content:
344
eBook ISBN:
9789047412311
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in pre-modern Chinese literature, intellectual history, and conceptual history, as well as those interested in historical, cultural and linguistic studies of emotion.
