Old Man Zhu
"Old Man Zhu" | |||
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Short story by Pu Songling | |||
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Country | China | ||
Language | Chinese | ||
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Published in | Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio | ||
Publication date | 1740 | ||
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"Old Man Zhu" (Chinese:
Plot
[edit]The patriarch of the Zhu family in Jiyang dies at the age of 50 but comes back to life shortly after, apparently because he had regretted leaving his wife behind. With the rest of the family gathered around the couple, he instructs her to lie down on the bed together with him; Zhu's family soon discovers that the bodies on the bed have become corpses.
Publication history
[edit]Originally titled "Zhu weng" (
Literary analysis
[edit]"Old Man Zhu" is presented by an implicit narrator; according to Pu's postscript, the story was relayed to him by "a daughter-in-law of Zhu's younger brother who ... was one of the younger women who was giggling at the spectacle of her in-laws publicly in bed together." The implicit narrator of "Old Man Zhu" was reportedly also a maidservant at the residence of Bi Jiyou (畢際
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ Barr 1984, p. 547.
- ^ Kow 1988, pp. 10–11.
- ^ Chan 2003, p. 88.
- ^ Sondergard 2008, p. 282.
- ^ Hammond 2006, p. 224.
Bibliography
[edit]- Barr, Allan (December 1984). "The Textual Transmission of Liaozhai zhiyi". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 44 (2): 515–562.
- Chan, Leo Tak Hung (2003). One Into Many: Translation and the Dissemination of Classical Chinese Literature. Rodopi. ISBN 9789042008151.
- Hammond, Charles E. (2006). "Factual Framing in "Liao Zhai Zhi Yi"". Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 59 (2): 205–230.
- Kow, Mei Kao (June 1988). "The Transmission of Liaozhai zhiyi in the Malay World" (PDF). Kekal Abadi. 7 (2): 9–12.
- Minford, John (2006). Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140447408.
- Sondergard, Sidney (2008). Strange Tales from Liaozhai. Vol. 1. Fremont, Calif.: Jain Publishing Company. ISBN 9780895810496.