2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Family Publishers and Vernacular Stories in the Ming Era : With Special Reference to Qingpingshantang
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20520332
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literatures/Literary theories in other countries and areas
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| Research Institution | Kyushu University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKAZATOMI Satoshi Kyushu University, 言語文化研究院, 准教授 (30250963)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 中国文学 |
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| Research Abstract |
During the Ming era when the publishing industry rose, some literati published vernacular stories as well as miscellanies, historical writings, and medical books from their family publishers. We picked up the Qingpingshantang publisher run by Hong Pian in Hangzhou as such a typical case, and illuminated the relationship between its publishing and vernacular stories. The Ming family publishing played an important role not only in the process that the oral stories originally told and performed in the Song and Yuan eras eventually developed into the written vernacular stories, but also in the process of establishing written vernacular Chinese and "xiaoshuo" as a literary genre.
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