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  title info:
    title: Mouse vs. cat in Chinese literature
    sub title: tales and commentary
  title info:
    title: Mouse versus cat in Chinese literature
  name:
    name part: Idema, W. L. (Wilt L.)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: translator,
    role:
      role term: writer of introduction.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: wau
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 254 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Wilt Idema presents Chinese tales about cats and mice, situating them in the Chinese literary tradition as a whole and within Chinese imaginative depictions of animals. In the literatures of the ancient and modern Near East, south Asia and medieval Europe, animal fables exhibited a range of anthropomorphic views, but Chinese literature is notable for its relative paucity of extended animal tales and rarity of talking animals. From ancient Egypt to China, rodents have long been vilified as thieves of grain in agrarian society, in perennial war with felines. Through varied depictions of the cat-mouse relationship, this set of tales allows to reader to consider the metaphorical roles of these animals in the Chinese literary imagination and to ponder their unusually prominent, and verbal, role in these stories. Of central focus is the legal case of the mouse against the cat in the underworld court of King Yama, a popular topic in the traditional ballad literature of late-imperial China and of present-day Chinese folk literature. Idema traces the development and variations of this theme of mice and cats in classical literature, to other stories of mice and cats in traditional vernacular literature and to stories about the wedding of the mouse to the cat and the war between mice and cats. An epilogue traces the treatment of enmity between rodents and felines worldwide, and a foreword by Haiyan Lee explores the relevance of these tales to posthumanist consideration of human-animal relations. This entertaining volume will appeal to readers interested in Chinese literature and society, comparative literature and animal studies in the humanities.
  note: translated and introduced by Wilt L. Idema ; foreword by Haiyan Lee.
  note: "A Robert Heilman book."
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    topic: Chinese literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Cats in literature
  subject:
    topic: Mice in literature
  subject:
    topic: Rats in literature
  subject:
    topic: Tales
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Fables, Chinese
  classification: PL2265 .I34 2019
  classification: 895.109/362
  identifier: 9780295744834
  identifier: 0295744839
  identifier: 9780295744858
  identifier: 0295744855
  identifier: 2018023657
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180619
    record change date: 20190718163348.0
    record identifier: in00004061128