A huaben (Chinese: 话本; pinyin: huàben) is a Chinese short- or medium-length story or novella written mostly in vernacular language, sometimes including simple classical language. In contrast to the full-length Chinese novel, it is generally not divided into chapters and recounts a limited number of characters or events. The earliest huaben are reported in the 12th century during the Song dynasty, but the genre did not flourish until the late Ming dynasty, and after the mid-17th century did not produce works of originality. In the development of Chinese fiction, the huaben are heirs of the bianwen (Buddhist tales) and chuanqi of the Tang dynasty, and are the predecessors of the stories and full-length novels of the Ming.[1]
^"The Novella", in Wilt Idema and Lloyd Haft. A Guide to Chinese Literature (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1997, ISBN 978-0-89264-099-7), p. 212.
A huaben (Chinese: 话本; pinyin: huàben) is a Chinese short- or medium-length story or novella written mostly in vernacular language, sometimes including...
During the Song dynasty (960–1279), similar stories circulated in the huaben, short works that were once thought to have served as prompt-books for shuochang...
snake. In the Ming dynasty, some time before 1547, a collection of early huaben tales was printed by Hong Pian (洪楩); in it was "The Three Pagodas of West...
earlier depictions of this script – the Tang tale “Li Huang” and the Song “huaben” version Bai Suzhen was shown as a she-demon who was a malevolent seductress...
considered to be a huaben (话本), that is, short novel or novella. The huaben genre has been around since the Song dynasty (960-1279). The huaben genre includes...
Notebook as well as a signed $500 limited edition in a three-ring binder. Huaben (Chinese novella) Bible (screenwriting) Runbook Wikimedia Commons has media...
Ming period and the first novel to follow day-to-day life of commoners. Huaben stories were also common in this period, such as those collected by Feng...
works either oral or using oral conventions, such as bianwen, pingshu, and huaben, which formed background to the novel as early as the Song dynasty. The...
Guangrun. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2006, pp.179-196. “A Study of a ‘New’ Huaben Story in Jingshi tongyan: ‘Ye Fashi Fushi Zhenyao’ (Exorcist Ye Subdues...
instance, was among the first to disagree with Lu Xun's explanation that the huaben of the Song dynasty were "promptbooks," or at least printed versions of...
(1973) was a "pioneering effort to utilize stylistic analysis to group huaben stories of Yuan and Ming periods that exhibit similar characteristics."...
d'histoires [fr]). The stories in these three books are in a format called Huaben (话本), a novella or short novel. Feng Menglong (1574－1646) passed the lowest...
as a lustful tyrant and his Bronze Bird Terrace a pleasure palace. The huaben Sanguozhi Pinghua ("Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language") elaborates...
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