Texts and transformations
Subtitle: essays in honor of the 75th birthday of Victor H. Mair
By: edited by Haun Saussy
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781604979565
Subjects: Chinese literature; History and criticism; Literature and society
Description: "The authors in this collection interrogate moments in the long history of East Asian writing at which turning points in the lives of texts become perceptible. Taking Victor Mair's multidisciplinary research as a common thread, they assess the transforming effect of stories, customs, and 'outside' ideas on Chinese civilization over a nearly two-thousand-year period"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: from the cave of a thousand books / Haun Saussy; title: On translation / Perry Link; title: Gao Xingjian's Chan-inspired absurdist aesthetics / Mabel lee; title: Sinophone intervention with China / David Der-Wei Wang; title: A tale without shape or shadow / Wilt L. Idema; title: Maligned exchanges / Nicola di Cosmo; title: Imagery of archery and accoutrements in epics from Southwest China / Mark Bender; title: Passing for Chinese / Emma J. Teng; title: Learning from editions / Ellen Widmer; title: The Chinese garden as an intellectual enterprise / Jerome Silbergeld; title: Fotudeng's spell practice and the dh?ra?? recitation ritual / Koichi Shinohara; title: The not-so-long arm of the law / Phyllis Granoff; title: Who guards the Buddha-word? / Tanya Storch; title: Yijing and the Buddhist cosmopolis of the seventh century / Tansen Sen; title: Countdown to 1051 / Mimi Yiengpruksawan.