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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Peony lantern tales
    sub title: ghostly encounters in the early modern Sinosphere
  title info:
    title: Ghostly encounters in the early modern Sinosphere
  name:
    name part: Jōo, Fumiko
    name part: 1974-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Literary criticism.
  genre: Critiques littéraires.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: hiu
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: chi
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: xiii, 239 pages : illustrations, map.
  abstract: ""The Story of the Peony Lantern" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347-1433) travelled across lingual, cultural, and geopolitical borders in early modern East Asia. The original tale, set in fourteenth-century Ningbo, China, is one of ghostly seduction and murder, but it continued to transform as it traveled from city to city and in its encounters with characters from other texts, publishing networks, and countless readers in the Sinosphere. Fumiko Jōo closely analyzes the cultural and societal structures that framed how a seductive female ghost was reconceived in texts, sites, and objects, both locally and trans-regionally. The myriad transformations of "The Peony Lantern" explain the context and the structures of knowledge production and practice where depictions of female sexuality, death, and morality emerged and were remade. Jōo incorporates a breadth of sources, from local gazetteers to theater ephemera, to shed light on the cultural life of objects, the collective memory of vanished sites, and the public's desire to encounter the phantom. She examines the historical moments and sociocultural spaces where Peony Lantern narratives and their writers thrived, following the tale as it moved from Hangzhou literati from the twelfth to fourteenth centuries to an early nineteenth-century group of Edo playwrights, kabuki theater producers, and publishers. Readers will welcome Jōo's exploration of the tale's transformation by local scholars of Ningbo in the eighteenth century and the female classical writer Arakida Reijo (1732-1806) and her Ise literary circle. The key sites of literary activity for the stories, according to Jōo's illuminating analyses, are not modern nation-states but networks of literati connected by class, gender, and regional affinities. This volume includes complete translations of Qu You's original "Peony Lantern" and two later adaptions, "The Double-Fish Fan Pendant" by Xiong Long Feng Publishing House and Arakida's "Floating Weeds.""--
  note: Fumiko Jōo.
  note: Translated from the Chinese.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Qu, You
      name part: 1341-1427
  classification: PL2698.C8 C5356 2025
  classification: 895.13/46
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Jian deng xin hua. English
    name:
      name part: Qu, You,
      name part: 1341-1427
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ukigusa. English
    name:
      name part: Arakida, Reijo,
      name part: 1732-1806
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Kong Shufang shuang yu shan zhui zhuan. English
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Peony lantern tales
    name:
      name part: Jōo, Fumiko, 1974-
    origin info:
      publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai`i, 2025
    identifier: (DLC) 2024034625
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2024034624
    identifier: (OCoLC)1457303163
  identifier: 9798880700431 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780824895754
  identifier: 0824895754
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 250626
    record change date: 20250810211320.6
    record identifier: in00005658398
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng