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Renditions no. 85 (Spring 2016)

Renditions no. 85 is devoted to narratives covering a wide scope of Chinese history. We begin with chapter five from Feng Menglong’s 馮夢龍 seventeenth-century historical novel, Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms. Other features comprise the official biographies of the first six empresses of the Ming Dynasty as recorded in the Mingshi 明史 [History of the Ming dynasty], as written by the historiographers in the Qing dynasty that followed, another excerpt from Chi Pang-yuan’s 齊邦媛 The Great Flowing River, ‘In Ninety-nine Degrees of Heat’ by Lin Huiyin 林徽因, ‘The Innermost Rebellion’ by Xiu Bai 修白, and ‘Fish of the People’ by Su Tong 蘇童.

136 pages

Order

Editor’s Page		5
Feng Menglong	Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms: Chapter Five Translated by Erik Honobe	7
Zhang Tingyu et al.	Empresses of the Ming Dynasty: 1368–1462, from the History of the Ming Dynasty Translated by Ellen Soulliere	23
Lin Huiyin	In Ninety-nine Degrees of Heat Translated by Yaohua Shi and Judith M. Amory	43
Xiu Bai	The Innermost Rebellion Translated by Dongwei Chu	63
Su Tong	Fish of the People Translated by Dongwei Chu	70
Chi Pang-yuan	The Great Flowing River: Chapter Three Translated by John Balcom	84
Book Notices		131
Notes on Authors		133
Notes on Contributors		135

Renditions no. 85 (Spring 2016)

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