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Renditions no. 85 (Spring 2016)
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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
Table of Contents
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 |