Tang Dynasty Tales

A Guided ReaderVolume 2

This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator's notes for these twelve tales provide insights into many aspects of Tang material culture and medieval thought, including Buddhism and Daoism.

In addition to meticulously annotated translations, the book offers original texts (with some textual notes), and commentaries in the form of translator's notes, thereby joining the first volume of Tang tales as the only collections that introduce students to Tang tales while also challenging specialists interested in the field.

Contents:

• "The Tale of the Supernatural Marriage at Dongting" 洞庭靈姻傳 (Li Chaowei 李朝威*)*
• "Zhang Lao" 張老 (Li Liang 李諒*)*
• "Yin Tianxiang" 殷天祥 (Shen Fen 沈汾*)*
• "Xue Yi" 薛義 (Dai Fu 戴孚*)*
• "An Account of Feng Yan" 馮燕傳 (Shen Yazhi 沈亞之*)*
• "A Record of Dream of Qin" 秦夢記 (Shen Yazhi 沈亞之*)*
• "The Biography of Ge Hua, Marquis of Xiapi" 下邳候革華傳 (Anonymous)
• "An Account of Mid-rivers" 河間傳 (Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元*)*
• "Scholar Cui" 崔書生 (Niu Sengru 牛僧孺*)*
• "Third Lady of Plank Bridge Inn" 板橋三娘子 (Xue Yusi 薛漁思*)*
• "An Account of Xie Xiao'e" 謝小娥傳 (Li Gongzuo 李公左*)*
• "Monk Attached to Emptiness" 僧契虛 (Zhang Du 張讀*)*

Readership: Academics and students interested in medieval Chinese literature; general public interested in early fiction.
Key Features:

• Expands the corpus of Tang tales by including several previously untranslated works from the Daoist and Buddhist traditions
• Includes examples of the well-known pseudo-biographies by Liu Zongyuan and a follower of Han Yu
• Many aspects of Tang culture are explained in the notes