CULTURAL ALLUSIONS AND HUMOROUS EFFECTS OF OCCULT DEPICTIONS IN NIGHT FERRY

Aiqing Wang

doi:10.30996/anaphora.v4i2.5805

Aiqing Wang University of Liverpool http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7546-4959

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30996/anaphora.v4i2.5805

Keywords: Zhang Dai, Taoism and Buddhism, divination, Xiao Lin Guang Ji

Abstract

??? Yehang Chuan ‘Night Ferry’ is an encyclopaedic masterpiece and the chef-d’oeuvre of ?? Zhang Dai (circa 1597-1689), an illustrious historian, poet, dramatist, essayist, aesthete, musician and gastronomist in late Ming and early Qing China. Night Ferry cumulates more than four thousand entries and encompasses a veritable cornucopia of topics in an elephantine range. In this research, I investigate Chapter Twenty ?? Fang Shu ‘Alchemy and Sorcery’ of Night Ferry, which comprises Section ?? Fu Zhou ‘Amulets and Incantations’ and Section ?? Fang Fa ‘Prescriptions and Practices’. Both sections abound with depictions pertaining to occult acts and paranormal forces, the vast majority of which embody cultural allusions concerning religion, divination and patriarchy. Furthermore, Chapter ‘Alchemy and Sorcery’ is featured by humorousness, though Night Ferry is not a dedicated jestbook. The humorous effect in Night Ferry is not attained via sarcasm or homo-/hetero-erotism, as manifested by derisive and prurient jokes compiled in a renowned pre-modern jestbook entitled ????Xiao Lin Guang Ji ‘A Collection of Classic Chinese Jokes’.

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Author Biography

Aiqing Wang, University of Liverpool

Dr Aiqing Wang is currently employed as a Lecturer and PhD supervisor at the Department of Languages, Cultures and Film, University of Liverpool. After graduating with a Master of Arts in Linguistics from University College London, she received a PhD in Linguistics from the University of York. Her doctoral project investigated Late Archaic Chinese syntax. Apart from linguistics, her ongoing research interest also includes cultural studies.

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