Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination
Michael Lackner, Kwok-kan Tam, Monika Gänssbauer, and Terry Siu Han Yip
The essays collected in Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination deal with the philosophical, psychological, gender and cultural issues in the Chinese conception of fate as represented in literary texts and films, with a focus placed on human efforts to solve the riddles of fate prediction. Viewed in this light, the collected essays unfold a meandering landscape of the popular imaginary in Chinese beliefs and customs. The chapters in this book represent concerted efforts in research originated from a project conducted at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Dr. Michael Lackner was Chair of Sinology and Director of the Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung, at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, where he serves as Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (Kollegforschungsgruppe). He is also a founding member and President of the International Society for the Critical Study of Divination.
Dr. Tam Kwok-Kan 譚國根 is Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science and Chair Professor of English at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. His fields of study include: Comparative literature and culture, Cultural globalization, Gender and psychoanalysis, Modern drama and film, New literature in English, Postcolonial and world English.
Dr. Monika Gänssbauer is Professor of Chinese Language and Culture and as of August 2020, Head of the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University.
Dr. Terry Siu Han Yip 葉少嫻 is Emeritus Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Art, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research interests are Chinese-Western Literary Relations; Comparative Literary Studies; Modern British Literature; Reception and Influence Studies; Romanticism; Self and Identity in Literature; Gender and Literature.
Lackner, Michael, Kwok-kan Tam, Monika Gänssbauer, and Terry Siu Han Yip, eds. Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination. Leiden: Brill, 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004427570
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