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EAS100Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Official History, Jin Ping Mei, Chuanqi

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15 Feb 2012
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UTSG
Department
East Asian Studies
Course
EAS100Y1
Professor
J.Gang

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Originated from collection of gossips of the streets, rumours. So xiaoshuo could be used as reference but people shouldn t believe in them completely because they might not be all true. Drawn from history: later on, many xiaoshuo are drawn from official history and added fictional details to the history, which becomes alternative history or unofficial history. Drawn from myths: xiaoshuo may draw from myths and expand myth by combining it with historical figures, making it more humanized, which becomes legend. Books that keep record of history of early zhou and pre-zhou dynasties. Each dynasty compiled history of former dynasty. Characteristics: centrality of history in the tradition, form continuous tradition and official value system, court-centered, didactically confucian. Myth is timeless and placeless, totally made up, but has symbolic and literary values. Myths back then are not systemic, they were subject to changes. Legend are somewhat historical, or based on imaginary people.

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