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1、1Page1of138THECARNALPRAYERMAT(ROUPUTUAN)LIYUTRANSLATED,WITHANINTRODUCTIONANDNOTES,BYPATRICKHANANAnAvailablePressBookPublishedbyBallantineBooksTranslation,notes,andintroductioncopyright©1990byPatrickHananAllrightsreservedunderinternationalandPan-AmericanCopyrightConventions.Published
2、intheUnitedStatesbyBallantineBooks,adivisionofRandomHouse,Inc.,NewYork,andsimultaneouslyinCanadabyRandomHouseofCanadaLimited,Toronto.GratefulacknowledgmentismadetoHarvardUniversityPressforpermissiontoreprintanexcerptfromTheInventionofLiYubyPatrickHanan.Copyright©1988bythePresidentan
3、dFellowsofHarvardCollege.LibraryofCongressCatalogCardNumber:89-91506ISBN:0-345-36508-9TextdesignbyHollyJohnsonCoverdesignbyJamesR.HarrisCoverillustration:WhilingAwaytheSummerbyYinChi,oneoftwelvealbumleaves,19thcentury.CourtesyofSydneyL.MossLtd.ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaF
4、irstEdition:August199010987654321ContentsIntroductionChapterOneChapterTwoChapterThreeChapterFourChapterFiveChapterSixChapterSevenChapterEightChapterNineChapterTenChapterElevenChapterTwelveChapterThirteenChapterFourteenChapterFifteenChapterSixteenChapterSeventeen2Page2of138ChapterEig
5、hteenChapterNineteenChapterTwentyAbouttheAuthorAbouttheTranslatorINTRODUCTIONWhatfirstattractedmetoLiYuwashisloveofcomicinvention."Broadlyspeaking,"heoncewrotetoafriend,"everythingIhaveeverwrittenwasintendedtomakepeoplelaugh."Hewasnevercontent,asotherwriterswere,tomakeminorvariation
6、suponthestandardliterarythemes.Insteadhesubmittedthosethemestoadrasticoverhaulandcreatedanewcomedyofhisown,claimingallthewhilethathisversionofrealitywasthetrueoneandthateverybodyelsewasdeluded.Hethusbelongstothatrarebreedofcomicwriter—rareinanyculture—whodiscoversorinventsthetermsof
7、hisownreality.[1]Letmegivetwoobviousexamples,bothofthemdiscoveriesratherthaninventions.InitsmostgeneraloutlineaChineseromanticcomedyconsistedofahandsomeyouthwithbrilliantliterarygiftsfallinginlovewithabeautifulandtalentedgirland,afterovercominganumberofvicissitudes,marryingher.Bythe
8、seventeenthcenturyc
