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THE KNIGHT-ERRANT IN HUA-PEN STORIES BY Y. W. MA ABBREVIATIONS CSTY Ching-shih t'ung-yen EPCC Erh-k'o P'o-an ching-ch'i HSHY Hsing-shih heng-yen KCHS Ku-chin lasiao-shuo LSCHS Liu-shih-chia lasiao-slauo (generally known as Ch'ing-p'ing-slaan-t'ang hua-pen . PACC P'o-an ching-ch'i Full many countries they did overrun From the uprising to the setting sun, And many hard adventures did achieve, Of all the which they honour ever won, Seeking the weak oppressed to relieve And to recover rights from such as wrong did grieve. Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene. The figure of the righteous man-at-arms as a champion of justice is one of the perpetual hero types consciously cherished in traditional Chinese literature. Thanks to the efforts of Profesor James J. Y. Liu gq as represented by his The Chinese K-night-eyyant (Chi- cago, 1967), the major traits, in fact and in literary imagination, of this otherwise hard to define figure, rendered ambiguous by the passage of time, the changing cultural and political background, the different needs of various genres, and the shifting literary taste, have been brought to a clearer focus 1). One would expect that dif- 267 ferent periods have brought forth different chivalric figures who in turn appear differently in their literary
T'oung Pao – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1975
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