Glossary 2 Flashcards
Zhu Yuanzhang
Founder of Ming Dynasty.
Farmer to monk to ruler.
Drove out Mongols
Ming Dynasty
1368-1644
Hongwu period
1368-98.
Capital at Nanjing
Zhu Di
Successor to Zhu Yuanzhang.
Moved the capital to Beijing
Yongle Period
1403-1424.
Forever happy
Zheng He
Naval expeditionary
Increased foreign trade
Trade networks and common monetization
Ming fiction
Linked chapter or episodic fiction
The four marvelous books
The “four marvelous books”
Outlaws of the Marsh
Journey to the West
The Three Kingdoms
Plum in a Golden Vase
“Romance of the Three Kingdoms”
1522
Sanguo Zhi
Attributed to Luo Guanzhong
“The Journey to the West”
1592
Xiyouji.
Attributed to Wu Cheng’en (1500-1582)
“Plum in a Gold Vase”
1617
Jinping Mei
Martial arts
Wuxia 武俠
Wu - martial
Xia - knight-errant or swordsman
Modern successors
Jin yong - pen name of Louis Cha, martial arts novelist.
King Hu - film director
Bruce Lee
Jianghu
“Rivers and lakes”
江湖
An alternative space to an official space.
Rules and laws of other social space
Martial arts characteristics
Righteousness and justice
Righteous fraternity and brothers in righteousness
Heroic men
Mount Liangshan marsh
Song Jiang
Rebellion
Mount Liangshan
Wu Song
Fights Tiger.
Later story with Wu Da, Golden Lotus, matchmaker Mistress Wang, Ximen Qing
Jin Shengtan
1600-1661
Failed civil service exams, but became a teacher of ‘how to read vernacular literature’.
Edited ‘Outlaws of the Marsh’ and ‘Story of the Western Wing’.
Commentary was controversial.
Later beheaded
Interlineal and eyebrow commentary - how commentary looks on a page
Zhiguai
‘Annals of the strange’
Anomaly accounts.
400-600 AD
Fiction
Small talk 小說
Story-book or prompt book
How to write a story.
Huaben 話本
Intrusive narrator - literati appropriation of the “voice of the oral storyteller.
Prologue stories
Poetic interludes
Homonyms i.e. 李甲 character and 理假 false principle
Imitation story book
Oral storytelling in a classic written structure.
Drawing on vernacular tales to create own literature
Feng Menglong
1576-1646
Failed civil service, but wrote extensively in fiction and prompt books.
Interested in authenticity and cult of qing or love.
“Du Tenth”
“The Anatomy of Love”
“Three Words”Collection
Illustrious Words to Instruct the World aka Stories Old and New.
Comprehensive Words to Admonish the World.
Lasting Words to Awaken the World.
Ming Dynasty
Heavily populated
Very wealthy
Merchants growing wealth, literati less so.
Increased mobility.
Sumptuary laws diminished, increased consumption.
Literati began questioning social values, class.
Ming falls in 1644
“Outlaws of the Marsh”
1550.
Shuihu zhuan 水滸傳
Attributed to Shi Nai’an.
Song Jiang from Song Dynasty, rebellion and Mount Liangshan
