Overview
As the audacious Monkey King battles his way through a landscape of inexplicable places and unfamiliar passions, Further Adventures on the Journey to the West offers a wry, revisionist critique of the late-Ming fascination with desire. Building on the great sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West, which recounts the escapades of a monk and three companions traveling to India in search of Buddhist scriptures to carry back to China, this sequel is a parable of self-delusion that explores the tension between desire and emptiness from a Buddhist perspective. The consummate literati novel, written by an accomplished artist for a well-educated readership, it is filled with allusions and parodies and features a dream-sequence narrative that is innovative and sophisticated even by modern standards. This new, fully annotated translation by two acclaimed scholars and translators brings to life this remarkably inventive, playful early modern text. The volume includes the original commentaries and illustrations, a critical introduction and afterword, and notes that highlight the sources of the novel's intertextual references, revealing the author's erudition and versatility.
Full Product Details
Author: Master of Silent Whistle Studio ,
Qiancheng Li ,
Robert E. Hegel ,
Qiancheng Li
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9780295747712
ISBN 10: 0295747714
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 15 October 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A critical translation for the serious scholar. * Choice * [A] boon to both scholarship and teaching. The translators' scholarly preface and postface, copious notes, and full bibliography mean that it brings this elusive novel closer to the point at which readers of today can understand it as seventeenth-century readers might have done. * Journal of Chinese Studies * Li and Hegel's new translation of Xiyoubu makes a great contribution to the field of Chinese studies not only for its masterful English translation of this seventeenth-centuryliterary gemand its erudite introduction, but also for presenting theworkwith the various paratexts that accompanied its late Ming edition. * Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *
A critical translation for the serious scholar. * Choice *
Author Information
Qiancheng Li is author of Fictions of Enlightenment and Transmutations of Desire and editor of the Chinese variorum, critical edition of Further Adventures on the Journey to the West. Robert E. Hegel is Liselotte Dieckmann Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and emeritus professor of Chinese at Washington University, and author of The Novel in Seventeenth-Century China.
