Fashioning Sanyan Stories into contemporary written novellas —— With A Bird and Seven Lives as an example

• Main Author: Gu, Chunguang
• Other Authors: -
• Format: Thesis-Master by Coursework
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/167417
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Evolving from bianwen and chuanqi of the Tang dynasty, Chinese vernacular stories emerged as an independent literary genre in the late Ming period, thanks to the compilation of Sanyan collections by Feng Menglong. The introduction of Sanyan stories to the English-speaking world can date back to the...