The Three Sui Quash the Demons' Revolt : : A Comic Novel Attributed to Luo Guanzhong.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• TeilnehmendeR: Fusek, Lois.
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Translator's Introduction --; Preface to the San Sui ping yao zhuan --; 1. The pawnbroker Moneybags Hu gets the magic painting. His wife burns the painting and gives birth to Yong'er --; 2. Hu Yong'er goes to buy steamed cakes in a snowstorm. Auntie Sheng gives her the magic teachings of the Goddess of the Ninth Heaven --; 3. Hu Yong'er conjures up cash and rice. Moneybags Hu angrily burns the magic wishing book --; 4. Hu Yong'er changes straw into horses. Hu Yong'er changes beans into soldiers --; 5. The daughter of Moneybags Hu marries Idiot Boy. Hu Yong'er secretly flees to Zhengzhou --; 6. Hu Yong'er conjures up a hideous face at the inn. Bu, the peddler, pursues Yong'er, and she jumps into a well --; 7. Bu Ji encounters Auntie Sheng in the Octagonal well. Bu Ji is banished to Mizhou after presenting the golden caldron --; 8. Zhang Luan rescues Bu Ji in the woods. Zhang Luan enjoys two moons at the shrine of a mountain deity --; 9.Zuo, the lame priest, buys steamed cakes and hoodwinks Ren Qian. Ren, Wu, and Zhang angrily pursue Zuo, the lame priest --; 10. The lame priest enters the belly of the Buddha in the Burial Mound Temple. Ren, Wu, and Zhang dream they receive Yong'er's magical art --; 11. The Pellet Priest bilks Grand Commandant Bighearted Wang. Du Qisheng magically beheads his son --; 12. His Excellency Bao orders the capture of the demon priest. Second Brother Li denounces the demon and dies in a fall --; 13. Yong'er sells mud candles to gain the attention of Wang Ze. Auntie Sheng counsels Wang Ze to plot rebellion --; 14. Zuo, the lame priest, hands out cash and rice to muster an army. Wang Ze is arrested and thrown into prison --; 15. The lame priest rescues Wang Ze and disables his captors. Liu Yanwei leads an army to apprehend Wang Ze --; 16. Wang Ze leads the people of Beizhou in rebellion. Yong'er marshals her troops and captures prefectures and cities --; 17. Wen Yanbo leads troops to conquer Beizhou. Assistant Commander Cao's blood pumps destroy the demons' magical powers --; 18 .The lame priest's flying millstone strikes the Duke of Lu The Many-eyed Monster saves the Duke of Lu and offers a word of advice --; 19. Wen Yanbo chances to meet Zhuge Suizhi. Fishsoup Li offers a plan to capture Wang Ze --; 20. Beizhou City carves up the demons. Commander Wen quashes the demons and returns to the Eastern Capital --; A Fantastic History. San Sui ping yao zhuan Reconsidered --; Appendix A. Early Historical and Anecdotal Materials Pertaining to the Wang Ze Rebellion --; Appendix B. A Note on the Possible Identity of Wang Shenxiu --; Notes --; Bibliography --; About the Translator
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824860707; 9783110649772; 9783110564143; 9783110663259
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824860707
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

The twenty-chapter novel The Three Sui Quash the Demons' Revolt is traditionally attributed to Luo Guanzhong (d. after 1364?), the alleged author of two of China's most famous and beloved works of fiction, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and The Water Margin. The Three Sui tells the story of the uprising of adherents of the Maitreya Buddha led by Wang Ze in 1047-1048. Wang Ze was eventually executed and all future heterodox activity outlawed.Paradoxically, The Three Sui treats the rebellion as an occasion for slapstick, baggy-pants humor in which facts are distorted and wildly mixed with fiction. Wang Ze's real-life lieutenants show up as a comical peddler and a mysterious Daoist priest. A celebrated warrior takes part in the rebellion despite having died seventeen years earlier. Although the novel is divided into chapters and otherwise follows the traditional format for such extended narratives, a careful examination reveals The Three Sui is an arrangement of self-contained vernacular stories. No story bears an intrinsic relationship to any other story. And because the integrity of the various stories has been so remarkably preserved, The Three Sui is a vernacular novel in which the vernacular story reigns supreme.Although the Wang Ze rebellion took place during the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127), ultimately The Three Sui is the story of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) in Song masquerade. It calls attention to the social unrest, even anarchy, caused by the rising power and influence of movements like The White Lotus Society and warns of the Ming's downfall unless such groups are contained. In this, the novel proved to be a prescient voice: The Ming collapsed as the result of a central authority weakened by mass sectarian uprisings.The Three Sui has been little known and sadly overlooked by scholars of Chinese literature and history. Now this vibrant translation and insightful interpretive essay make this early example of Chinese vernacular fiction available to a broad audience interested in comparative literature and fiction.