0476687 - OÚ 2018 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Weingarten, Oliver
Chunyu Kun: Motifs, Narratives, and Personas in Early Chinese Anecdotal Literature.
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Roč. 27, č. 3 (2017), s. 501-521. ISSN 1356-1863. E-ISSN 1474-0591
Institutional support: RVO:68378009
Keywords : Chinese Literature * Chunyu Kun
OECD category: Specific literatures
Method of publishing: Limited access
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186316000572

The present article undertakes a comprehensive study of ancient Chinese anecdotal and dialogic sources on Chunyu Kun, who is presented in a variety of roles such as trickster, sophist, envoy, jester, procurer of talent for his ruler, and erudite at the so-called Jixia academy which was allegedly established in the pre-imperial state of Qi. The article outlines how certain motifs and topics were reused and, in the process, reshaped by the narrative tradition and Chunyu Kun came to serve as a stock figure in different types of discourse.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0280103