Minor Discourses: Aesthetics of the Everyday
Subtitle
小道可觀──中國日用美學
This book delves into the "minor" modes of literary productions—drama, fiction, songs and encyclopedias, among others—and the insights into everyday life in traditional China which they provide.
Bios
Xiaoqiao Ling is an associate professor of Chinese in the School of International Letters and Cultures. Her main field of interest is late imperial Chinese literature with a focus on performance texts, vernacular fiction and the print culture. She has published in both Chinese and English on fiction and drama commentary, legal imagination in literature, memory and trauma in 17th-century China.
Young Oh is an associate professor of Chinese in the School of International Letters and Cultures. He works on the cultural connection among East Asian societies, with particular focus on the language and the book. His ultimate interest lies in how cultures interact to influence each other; how language, books and other kind of media function as vehicles of cultural transmission and exchange; and how different geographical regions come to be seen as forming a continuous cultural space.
William Hedberg is an associate professor of Japanese in the School of International Letters and Cultures. Though his primary research focus is the literature and culture of early modern Japan, his other areas of interest include Japanese Sinology, translation studies and travel literature in early modern and modern East Asia.
