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Real life in China at the height of empire : revealed by the ghosts of Ji Xiaolan /

"Toward the end of the eighteenth century, the scholar and wit Ji Xiaolan published five collections of anecdotes and discourses on the interaction between the mundane and the spirit worlds, incorporating earthly life stories and happenings. Containing Ji's thoughts and others' experi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ji, Yun, 1724-1805 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Pollard, David E. (Editor , Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Chino
Publicado: Hong Kong : Chinese University Press, ©2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Spirits, spectres and demons
  • Ghosts
  • Hauntings
  • Foxes
  • Fortune-telling
  • Beyond belief
  • Reincarnation
  • Curiosities
  • The wild west
  • Officialdom
  • Legal dilemmas and disputes
  • Yamen staff
  • Servants
  • Hearth and home
  • Piety and paragons
  • Love pledged and blighted
  • Friends and false friends
  • Personal
  • Dogma and dogmatists
  • Morality
  • Pedants
  • Women
  • Homosexuality
  • Impersonation
  • Fraud
  • Merchants
  • Bandits, brigands and robbers
  • Physical prowess
  • Jesuits in China.