READING REQUIREMENTS

There is no textbook designated for this unit of study. Aside for weekly assigned readings listed in the Weekly Handout from the following Essential Readings, a list of books and articles is given in the Bibliography for your reference.

Wu Chucai 吳楚材and Wu Diaohou 吳調侯 eds. 1695. Guwen guanzhi 古文觀止 (Collected Ancient Prose). https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&res=957611

Wu, C and Wu, D. 2007. An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Prose: A Translation, translated by S-K Wong. Asia Education Times, Hong Kong. (on Special Reserve in Library)

*Zhao, Xiaohuan. 2003. “From Shanhai jing to Liaozhai zhiyi: Towards a Morphology of Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction.” PhD Thesis. The University of Edinburgh.

*Zhao, Xiaohuan. 2005a. Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction: A Morphological History. New York: The Edwin Mellen Press (on Special Reserve in Library)

BIBLIOGRAPHY for Classical Chinese Fiction      

Titles marked with an asterisk (*) are key reference materials.

Primary sources: Xiaoshuo works and anthologies:

*干寶著，汪紹楹校注，《搜神記》，北京：中華書局，1979

郭郛注，《山海经注证》，北京：中國社會科學出版社，2004

郭璞注，《山海經》，台北：世界書局，1988

纪昀，《閱微草堂筆記》，北京：中華書局，1999

*李昉等編，《太平廣记》全十冊，北京：中華書局，1961

*劉義慶編撰，劉孝標注，朱鑄禹集注，《世說新語彙校集注》，上海：上海古籍出版社，2002

劉義慶編撰，劉孝標注，徐震堮校箋注，《世說新語校箋》，北京：中華書局，1984

*蒲松齡著，張友鶴輯校，《聊齋誌異會校會注會評本》，上海：上海古籍出版社，1978

*汪辟疆校錄，《唐人小說》，上海：上海古籍出版社，1978

袁枚，《子不語》 上下冊，上海：上海古籍出版社，1986

 

Secondary sources in Chinese: book-length studies of xiaoshuo:

卞孝萱，《唐人小說與政治》，廈門: 鷺江出版社, 2003

陳珏，《初唐傳奇文鈎沈》，上海：上海古籍出版社，2005

陳文新，《文言小說審美髮展史》，武漢：武漢大學出版社，2002

程毅中，《神怪情俠的藝術世界：中國古代小說流派漫話》，北京: 中共中央黨校出版社: 新華書店經銷, 1994

——《古小說簡目》，北京：中華書局，1981

*董乃斌，黃霖主編，《古代小說鑒賞辭典》上下冊，上海：上海辭書出版社，2004

干寶著，張覺譯，《白話搜神記》，長沙：岳麓書社，1991

郭豫適，《中國古代小說論集》，上海：華東師範大學出版社，1992年第3版（修訂版)

韓雲波，《唐代小說觀念與小說興起研究》，成都：四川民族出版社，2002

纪昀著，老山译，《白話閱微草堂筆記》，长沙：岳麓书社,1996

*候忠義，劉世林，《中國文言小說史稿》，北京：北京大學出版社，1993

*李劍國，《唐前志怪小說史》，天津：南開大學出版社，1984

劉義慶編撰，柳士鎮等譯，《世说新语全译》，貴陽：贵州人民出版社, 1996

*魯迅，《中國小說史略》（插圖本），上海：上海古籍出版社，2004

朴美齢，《世說新語中所反映的思想》，台北：文津出版社，1990

蒲松齡著，萧艾等譯，《白话聊斋全本》， 長沙：岳麓書社，1990.

萧虹，《世說新语整體研究》，上海：上海古籍出版社，2005

王能憲，《世說新語研究》，南京：江蘇古籍出版社，1992

王青，《西域文化影響下的中古小說》，北京：中國社會科學出版社，2006

*葉桂剛，王貴元主編，《中國古代十大志怪小說賞析》，北京：北京廣播學院出版社，1992

袁枚著，古晔等譯，《子不語》，北京：中國國際廣播出版社，1992

袁行霈，侯忠義編，《中國文言小說書目》，北京：北京大學出版社，1981

*《中國古代小說百科全書》 編輯委員會，《中國古代小說百科全書》，北京: 中國大百科全書出版社, 2006年第三版（修訂版）

*周次吉，《六朝志怪小說硏究》，台北：文津出版社，1986

*朱一玄编，《聊齋誌異资料匯编》，鄭州：中州古籍出版社，1985

 

Secondary sources in English: General studies:

Birrell, Anne, Chinese Mythology: An Introduction. Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1993.

*Idema, Wilt and Lloyd Haft, A Guide to Chinese Literature. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1997.

*Lu Hsun (aka. Lu Xun), A Brief History of Chinese Fiction. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976.

*Mair, Victor, ed., The Columbia History of Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

Nienhauser, William H., Jr., ed., The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature. 2 v. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986-1998.

 

Secondary sources in English: Anthologies and book-length studies/translations

Birch, Cyril, ed. Anthology of Chinese Literature from Early Times to the Fourteenth

Century. New York: Grove Press, 1965.

Campany, Robert Ford, Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China. Albany: SUNY UP, 1996.

*Ding, Wangdao, trans. 100 Chinese Myths and Fantasies: Chinese-English, Beijing: Shangwu yinshu guan, 1988.

Dudbridge, Glen, The Tale of Li Wa: Study and Critical Edition of a Chinese Story from the Ninth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1983.

Huntington, Rania, Alien Kind: Foxes and Late Imperial Chinese Narrative. Cambridge. MA: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003.

Ma, Y. W. and Joseph S. M. Lau, eds. Traditional Chinese Stories, Themes and Variations. Boston: Cheng & Tsui Co., 1986.

Mair, Victor, ed. The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Minford, John and Joseph S. M. Lau, eds. Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations. Volume 1: From Antiquity to the Tang Dynasty. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Owen, Stephen, trans. & ed. An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911. New York: Norton, 1996.

*Liu I-ch’ing. Shih-shuo Hsin-yü—A New Account of Tales of the World, with commentary by Liu Chün; translated with introduction and notes by Richard B. Mather. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2002.

*Gan Bao. 1996. In search of the Supernatural: The Written Record, translated by Kenneth J. DeWoskin and J.I. Crump, Jr. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.

*Pu Songling, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, translated with Introduction by John Minford. London: Penguin Books, 2006.

*Yang, Winston L. Y, et al. ed. Classical Chinese Fiction; A Guide to Its Study and Appreciation: Essays and Bibliographies. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978.

*Yang, Xianyi, and Gladys Yang, trans. Tang Dynasty Stories. Beijing: Panda Books, 1986.

*Yuan Mei, Censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories, edited and translated with an introduction by Kam Louie and Louise Edwards. Armonk, N. Y.; London, Eng.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.

*Zeitlin, Judith, Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.

*Zhao, Xiaohuan. “From Shanhai jing to Liaozhai zhiyi: Towards a Morphology of Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction. PhD Thesis, the University of Edinburgh, 2003.

*Zhao, Xiaohuan. Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction: A Morphological History. New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005a.

 

Secondary sources in English: essays, articles and reviews

Campany, Robert Ford, “Ghosts Matter: The Culture of Ghosts in Six Dynasties Zhiguai,” Chinese literature: Essay, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), Vol. 13 (Decemer 1991), pp. 15-34.

Cutter, Robert Joe, “History and ‘The Old Man of the Eastern Wall’,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 106, No. 3 (Jul. - September 1986), pp. 503- 528.

DeWoskin, Kenneth, J., “Hsiao-shuo,” in William H. Nienhauser, Jr. ed., The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, Vol. 1, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 423-426.

-- "On Narrative Revolutions", Chinese literature: Essay, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), Vol. 5, No. 1/2 (July 1983), pp. 29-45.

Francis, Sing-chen Lydia, “ ‘What Confucius Wouldn't Talk About’: The Grotesque Body and Literati Identities in Yuan Mei's ‘Zi buyu’,” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), Vol. 24 (Dec., 2002), pp. 129-160.

Gjertson, Donald E., “The Early Chinese Buddhist Miracle Tale: A Preliminary Survey,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 101, No. 3 (Jul. – September 1981), pp. 287-301

Hegel, E. Robert, "Traditional Chinese Fiction-The State of the Field," The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 53, No. 2 (1994), pp. 394-426.

Hightower, James R., “Yuan Chen and ‘The Story of Ying-Ying’,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 33, (1973), pp. 90-123.

Huntington, Rania, “Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction: A Morphological History (review),” China Review International, vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2007), pp. 307-312.

Kao, Karl S.Y., “Aspects of Derivation in Chinese Narrative,” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), Vol. 7, No. 1/2 (July 1985), pp. 1-36

--“Bao and Baoying: Narrative Causality and External Motivations in Chinese Fiction,” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), Vol. 11 (December 1989), pp. 115-138

Kirkland, Russell, “A World in Balance: Holistic Synthesis in T’ai-pi’ing Kuang-chi,” Journal of Sung-Yuean Studies, 23 (1993), pp. 43-70.

Lu Hsun (aka, Lu Xun), “The Historical Development of Chinese Fiction,” in Lu Hsun, A Brief History of Chinese Fiction, translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1976, pp. 373-419.

Ma, Y. W. “Fact and Fantasy in T’ang Tales,” Chinese literature: Essay, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), Vol. 2, No. 2 (July 1980), pp. 167-181.

Mair, Victor, "The Revolutions in Chinese Narrative Literature: Ontological Presuppositions", Chinese literature: Essay, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), Vol. 5, No. 1/2 (July 1983), pp. 1-27.

Mather, Richard B., “Introduction,” in Liu I-ch’ing. Shih-shuo Hsin-yü—A New Account of Tales of the World, with commentary by Liu Chün, Minnespolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1976, pp. xiii-xxx.

Nienhauser, WH Jr., 1988-89, "The Origin of Chinese Fiction," Monumenta Serica, MS 38 (1988-1989), pp. 1-14.

Schafer, Edward H., “The Table of Contents of the ‘T'ai p'ing kuang chi,” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), Vol. 2, No. 2. (July 1980), pp. 258-263.

Wong, Timothy C., “Self and Society in T’ang Dynasty Love Tales,” Journal of American Oriental Society, Vol. 99, No. 1 (1979), pp. 95-100.

Wu Hua, Laura, "From Xiaoshuo to Fiction: Hu Yinglin's Genre Study of Xiaoshuo", Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 55, No.2 (1995), pp. 339-371.

Yu, Anthony C., "Rest, Rest, Perturbed Spirit!" Ghosts in Traditional Chinese Prose Fiction,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 47, No. 2. (December 1987), pp. 397-434.

 Zhao, Xiaohuan. “Xiaoshuo as a Cataloguing Term in Traditional Chinese Bibliography,” Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2005b), pp.157-181.

Zhao, Xiaohuan. “Collection, Classification and Conception of Xiaoshuo in the Taiping Guangji,” Asian Cultural Studies, Vol. 35 (March 2009), pp. 1-14.

Zhao, Xiaohuan. “Towards an Integrated Cognitive Model of Literature: With Special Reference to Tang Chuanqi Fiction,” AUMLA, Issue 114 (November 2010), pp. 57-72.

Bibliography for Classical Chinese Prose

北京大學   北京師範大學 中文系教師同學編，《陶淵明卷》 [古典文學研究資料彙編]，北京：中華書局，1965.

曹明綱，《陶淵明, 謝靈運, 鮑照詩文選評》， 上海: 上海古籍出版社，2002.

*陳飛 主編，《中國古代散文研究》， 福州: 福建人民出版社，2005.

高海夫.，《柳宗元散論》， 西安: 陜西人民出版社，1985.

*郭預衡，《中國散文史》 (全三冊)，上海:上海古籍出版社，2000.

黃永年譯註，《韓愈詩文選譯》，成都: 巴蜀書社，1990. 

*Hucker, Charles O. A dictionary of official titles in Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press,1985.   [for 官名]  East Asian reference collection，

李華選注，《 陶淵明詩文選》， 北京: 人民文學出版社，1981.

馬其昶，《韓昌黎文集校注》，上海:上海古籍出版社，1986.

前野直彬著， 譚繼山編譯，《衛道詩人 韓愈: 傳記》. 臺北市: 萬盛出版有限公司，1983.  

*錢冬父，《唐宋古文運動》，北京: 中華書局，1962.

錢冬父，《韓愈》，北京: 中華書局，1980.

尚永亮選注，《柳宗元詩文選評》，上海: 上海古籍出版社，2003.

搎昌武，《柳宗元專論》，北京: 人民文學出版社，1982.

 搎昌武，《韓愈詩文選評》，上海: 上海古籍出版社，2002.

童第德選注，《韓愈文選》，北京: 人民文學出版社，1980.

衛風娟，《悠然見南山 – 陶淵明與中國閒情》，濟南市: 濟南出版社，2004.

吳文治，《柳宗元卷》 [古典文學研究資料彙編]， 北京: 中華書局，1964.  

吳文治，《柳宗元簡論》，北京: 中華書局，1979.

謝先俊, 王勳敏譯註，《陶淵明詩文選譯》，成都:         巴蜀書社，1990. 

*鄭子瑜，《唐宋八大家古文修辭偶疏舉要》，北京: 教育科學出版社，1992.

鍾優民，《陶淵明論集》，長沙: 湖南人民出版社，1981.