Huanxi Yuanjia
Huanxi Yuanjia (traditional Chinese: 歡喜冤家; simplified Chinese: 欢喜冤家),[a] also translated into English as Enemies Enamoured,[1][b] Enemies in Love,[3] and Lovers and Foes,[4] is a late Ming dynasty Chinese short story collection by a writer under the pseudonym Xihu yuyin zhuren (西湖漁隱主人).
The collection was published in the early 17th-century and features a wide variety of love stories that range from erotic to comical in twenty-four chapters.
Illustrations from a printed edition of Huanxi Yuanjia
Notes
- ↑ Also known in Chinese as Huanxi Qijuan (traditional Chinese: 歡喜奇觀; simplified Chinese: 欢喜奇观) and several other titles.
- ↑ Or Enamored Enemies.[2]
Citations
- ↑ McMahon, Keith (1995). Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-female Relations in Eighteenth-century Chinese Fiction. Duke University Press. p. 171.
- ↑ Zhou, Zuyan (2003). Androgyny in Late Ming and Early Qing Literature. University of Hawaii Press. p. 317.
- ↑ Martin W. Huang (2020). Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China. Brill. p. 62.
- ↑ Quenzer, Jorg G. (2021). Exploring Written Artefacts: Objects, Methods, and Concepts. De Gruyter.