This is the first book-form result of the author's interdisciplinary research on a key problem for understanding Chinese texts, and therewith, China its ways of expression of emotions and states of mi
How was the concept of 'personality' perceived in (late-imperial) China? Re-constructing the main features describing the individual, and firmly based on a variety of sources, this volume is a reflect
This is the second volume in a series titled "Emotions and States of Mind in East Asia"--an intriguing and wide-open theme. The preface describes the material: "This volume is dedicated to seven chapt
Collected in two volumes are short tales and vignettes written in the 18th century China, a miscellany of sorts, leaning strongly to supernatural tales and often blackly humorous. The introduction des
Passion, Love, and Qing examines the vitality of Peony Pavilion, the most famous drama in Ming China (1368-1644), through four essays and an extensive Glossary of specific terms and expressions relate
The Culture of Love in China and Europe offers a cautiously comparative survey of the cults of love developed in the history of ideas and literary production in China and Europe between the 12th and e
The 14 essays presented here are part of the international project the Representation of Emotions and States of Mind in Chinese Written and Visual Sources, which focuses on Ming and Qing literary work
As the title suggests, these essays take a provocative approach to Chinese history, focusing on an anthropological aspect of human experience: the affective world. The contributors, who are specialist
