Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination

Lackner M, Tam KK, Gänßbauer M, Siu Han Yip T (2020)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Edited Volume

Subtype: Book

Publication year: 2020

Publisher: Brill

Series: Prognostication in History

City/Town: Leiden

Book Volume: 4

ISBN: 978-90-04-42757-0

DOI: 10.1163/9789004427570_002

Abstract

The essays collected in Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination deal with the philosophical, psychological, gender and cultural issues in the Chinese conception of fate as represented in literary texts and films, with a focus placed on human efforts to solve the riddles of fate prediction. Viewed in this light, the collected essays unfold a meandering landscape of the popular imaginary in Chinese beliefs and customs.
The chapters in this book represent concerted efforts in research originated from a project conducted at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

Contributors are Michael Lackner, Kwok-kan Tam, Monika Gaenssbauer, Terry Siu-han Yip, Xie Qun, Roland Altenburger, Jessica Tsui-yan Li, Kaby Wing-Sze Kung, Nicoletta Pesaro, Yan Xu-Lackner, and Anna Wing Bo Tso.

Editors with CRIS profile

Michael Lackner Lehrstuhl für Sinologie Kwok-Kan Tam Internationales Forschungskolleg an der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg: Schicksal, Freiheit und Prognose: Bewältigungsstrategien in Ostasien und Europa Monika Gänßbauer Lehrstuhl für Sinologie

How to cite

APA:

Lackner, M., Tam, K.-K., Gänßbauer, M., & Siu Han Yip, T. (Eds.) (2020). Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination. Leiden: Brill.

MLA:

Lackner, Michael, et al, eds. Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

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