Feng Menglong
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- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Feng.
Feng Menglong (traditional Chinese: 馮夢龍; simplified Chinese: 冯梦龙; pinyin: Féng Mènglóng, 1574-1645) was a Chinese vernacular writer/poet of the late Ming Dynasty. He was born in then Changzhou now Suzhou in Jiangsu Province.
Feng was a proponent of the school of Li Zhi which supported the importance of human feelings and behavior in literature. Most of his literary work was in editing and compiling histories, almanacs, novels, etcetera. Two noteworthy novels of his are Pingyao Zhuan and Qing Shi. Another of his novels has recently drawn more attention and turned into a TV show is Dongzhou Lieguo Zhi (Romance of Eastern Zhou Kingdoms). In 1620 he published the Gujin Xiaoshuo ("Stories Old and New").
[edit] Works
- Pingyao Zhuan
- Qing Shi
- Gujin Xiaoshuo ("Stories Old and New") published (1620), also known as Yushin Mingyan ("Illustrious Words to Instruct the World") selections translated by Cyril Birch, Stories from a Ming Collection: Translations of Chinese Short Stories Published in the Seventeenth Century (Bloomington,: Indiana University Press, 1959; rpr New York: Grove); translated in its entirety: Yang Shuihu, Yang Yunqin, Stories Old and New: A Ming Dynasty Collection (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000)
