Tag: baojuan

• Interview with Professor Wilt Idema

  

  Q: How has the pandemic affected your work? WI: I consider myself one of the lucky ones. So far I have been in good health. As a retired person working at home I have not been affected that much by many of the lockdown measures. I am not involved in teaching, so I did not…

  Cambria Press

  March 23, 2021

  Cambria Press

  baojuan, Insects in Chinese Literature, Sinophone, The Immortal Maiden Equal to Heaven and Other Precious Scrolls from Western Gansu, Wilt Idema

• Cambria Press Publication Review – The Immortal Maiden Equal to Heaven and Other Precious Scrolls from Western Gansu

  Congratulations to Professor Wilt Idema (Harvard University) on the great review of his book, “The Immortal Maiden Equal to Heaven” and Other Precious Scrolls from Western Gansu. The Journal of Chinese Religions praises the book, noting that “this addition to a growing body of premodern popular Chinese literature in translation, much of it also by…

  Cambria Press

  December 18, 2017

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, China, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, university books

  Asian culture, Asian poetry, baojuan, Cambria Press publication review, Cambria Sinophone World Series, Journal of Chinese Religions, premodern popular Chinese literature, Shijing, Sinophone, six great novels of the Ming and Qing, Tang poetry, The Immortal Maiden, Victor Mair, Wilt Idema

• Interview with Wilt Idema on his new book, “The Immortal Maiden Equal to Heaven and Other Precious Scrolls from Western Gansu”

  The following is an interview with Cambria Press author Dr. Wilt Idema (Harvard University) whose new book has just been released. In addition to the many honors he has earned, Dr. Idema is one of twenty Sinologists this year to win the 9th Special Book Award of China, a national-level award was set up by General…

  Cambria Press

  October 8, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, China, Literary History, Religious Studies

  AAS, Asian Studies, baojuan, Book Award, Buddhist, Cambria author, Cambria book, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Central Asia, China, Chinese dialect, Chinese popular culture, colloquial, comparative literature, Harvard University, intangible cultural heritage, literary history, May Fourth, Ming dynasty, Mongol, Precious Scrolls, Qing dynasty, religious studies, Shanghai, Sinologist, sinology, Sinophone, sutra, The Precious Scroll of Kalpa Survival, The Precious Scroll of Liu Quan Presenting Melon, The Precious Scroll of the Mouse, The Precious Scroll of the Parrot, translation, vernacular, Victor Mair, Western Gansu, Wilt Idema

• Baojuan (Precious Scrolls) of China explained by Eminent Sinologist Wilt Idema (Harvard University)

  What are the baojuan 寶卷 (precious scrolls) of China? Eminent Sinologist Wilt Idema (Harvard University) explains: Precious scrolls (baojuan) is the name of a genre of prosimetric texts (texts written in an alternation of prose and verse) on religious subjects and written in vernacular Chinese. The most recent catalogue of precious scrolls lists more than…

  Cambria Press

  October 5, 2015

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Culture

  #Book, Asian Studies, baojuan, Buddhist sutra, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, China, Chinese, Ming dynasty, Precious Scrolls, Qing dynasty, Sinologist, Sinophone, Victor Mair, Wilt Idema