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Hanan, Patrick Dewes was born on January 4, 1927 in New Zealand. Son of Frederick Arthur and Ida Helen (Dewes) Hanan.
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Chen Diexian was a writer, inventor and business tycoon whose life spanned the old China and the new. This is the story of his passage from innocent boy to young man, and in it he chooses to focus on his amorous and erotic development, a rare subject in Chinese literature.
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During the centuries of its popularity, early Chinese vernacular fiction was never adequately preserved or even documented. The great popular appeal of the short stories saved them from oblivion, but it was only in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that they were first collected and published. Mr. Hanan's erudite study is the first thorough attempt to uncover the history of the Chinese short story. Using a variety of techniques, but principally that of stylistic analysis, the author solves the fundamental problem of dating the stories in terms of periods. He is able to place each story in one of three broad categories, early (ca. 1250-1450), middle (ca. 1400-1575), and late (ca. 1550-1627), and to assign some of them to the earlier or later part of the time span. In many cases he offers evidence of sources and influences, place of origin, and possible or probable authorship. On the basis of the author's research, it is possible to see in minutely researched detail how the short story developed in China, what kind of men composed it, its relationship to other kinds of literature, and the main social preoccupations with which it deals. The results of Mr. Hanan's study are vitally important to all scholars of Chinese literature. Historians and linguists will also find it valuable as a model of the innovative use of stylistic analysis.
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One of the most original and controversial figures in the history of Chinese literature, Li Yu specialized in challenging social taboos and turning literary themes on their heads. The stories featured here combine the racy wit and bawdiness of the traditional oral storyteller with a very modern blend of subtlety, irony and psychological insight to create a vibrant and accessible picture of 17th century Chinese life. This illustrated collection is an important step in bringing the writing of Li Yu to a wider audience. Here is a compelling example of a vibrancy and insight only now being rediscovered by contemporary Chinese writers.
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Li Yu, 1610-1680, was a brilliant comic writer and entertainer, a thoroughgoing professional whose life was in his work-plays, stories, a novel, criticism, essays, and poems. Patrick Hanan places him in the society of his day, where even his precarious livelihood, his constant search for patronage, did not dampen his versatility, his irreverent wit, or his jocund spirit. Li was also an epicure, an inventor, a pundit, and a designer of houses and gardens. He was an exceptional figure in Chinese culture for two reasons: his disregard of the authority of tradition, and his dedication to the cause of comedy. Hanan uses the term "invention" in his title in several ways: Li Yu's invention of himself, his public image-his originality and inventiveness in a multitude of fields and the literary products of his inventiveness. With expert and entertaining translations Hanan explores the key features of Li Yu's work, summarizing, describing, and quoting extensively to convey Li's virtuosity, his unconventionality, his irreverence, his ribaldry. This is a splendid introduction to the art and persona of a Chinese master of style and ingenuity.
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Hanan, Patrick Dewes was born on January 4, 1927 in New Zealand. Son of Frederick Arthur and Ida Helen (Dewes) Hanan.
Bachelor, Auckland University, 1948. Master of Arts, Auckland University, 1949. Bachelor, University London, 1953.
Doctor of Philosophy, University London, 1960. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Auckland University, 2006.
Lecturer, School Oriental and African Studies, 1954-1963; associate professor, then professor, Stanford University, 1963-1968; professor Chinese literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968-1989; Victor S. Thomas professor Chinese literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989-1998; Victor S. Thomas research professor Chinese literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1998. Director Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1987-1995.
(One of the most original and controversial figures in the...)
(Li Yu, 1610-1680, was a brilliant comic writer and entert...)
( Li Yu, 1610-1680, was a brilliant comic writer and ent...)
( During the centuries of its popularity, early Chinese ...)
(Chen Diexian was a writer, inventor and business tycoon w...)
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Fellow American Council Learned Societies, Guggenheim Foundation. Member American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Married Anneliese Drube, July 1951. 1 son, Rupert Guy.