Classical Today - From Zhuge Liang to Pan Jinlian

Author: Wang Yijia
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: From the Spring Sleep in the Cottage to the Indisputable Rivalry Between Han and, Lin Daiyu's Love, Illness, and Death; Magic and Fate in Fengshen Bang. The author uses a wealth of psychoanalysis, analytical psychology, sociobiology, consciousness evolution theory, sexology, parapsychology, anthropology, and even neurophysiology to interpret classical literary works such as Dream of the Red Chamber, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Golden Chamber of the Jade Emperor, Laughing Forest, White Snake Legend, and Fengshen Bang, with each piece being insightful and unique. The author employs a great deal of sociobiology, consciousness evolution theory, sexology, parapsychology, anthropology, and even neurophysiology to analyze these literary works. In fact, the author uses a more familiar "knowledge system" to interpret classical works such as Dream of the Red Chamber, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Golden Chamber of the Jade Emperor, Laughing Forest, Bao Gong Case, White Snake Legend, Seven Generations of Married Couples, and Strange Stories from Ancient and Modern Times, with each piece being insightful and unique. Professor Zheng Mingchi of the Chinese Department at Tsinghua University says of this book: "It is full of original insights and truly offers a new perspective on classical fiction."