Excelsior Editions
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Excelsior Editions

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Finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Multicultural Fiction category Xue Mo's novel Curses of the Kingdom of Xixia presents a rich tapestry of the history, religion, lore, and customs of a region in present-day northwestern China. During its heyday, the Sino-Tibetan kingdom of Xixia (pronounced see-sia; 1038–1227), also known as the Tanguts, rivaled the Song dynasty (960–1279) of China and boasted a cavalry so formidable that the Chinese paid tribute to it to maintain peace. Using the discovery of "lost" manuscripts as a frame, the novel presents historical events and tales of semifictional characters, including the avatar of a local Tantric Buddhist goddess, a Dakini/Vajrayogini named Snow Feather. Taking the readers through different historical times and the various geographical and cultural spaces of the region, Xue Mo reveals truths by blurring the distinction between good and evil, beauty and hideousness, reality and fiction, permanence and impermanence. Magical realism and mimesis coexist. Reality merges with illusion, the mundane with the supernatural.

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Publisher
Excelsior Editions
Year
2023
ISBN
9781438494951
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Historical Fiction
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Translator’s Introduction
  6. Chapter 1 Origins of this Book
  7. Chapter 2 The Iron Hawks of Xixia
  8. Chapter 3 The Barbarian Hag
  9. Chapter 4 Stealing Crops
  10. Chapter 5 The Technique of Execution in Nightmares
  11. Chapter 6 Origin of the Flying Thief
  12. Chapter 7 The Old Mountain Beyond the Horizon
  13. Chapter 8 The Angry Ravens
  14. Chapter 9 The Monk Who Went on a Pilgrimage
  15. Chapter 10 The Black Dragon Demons
  16. Chapter 11 The Crunching of Fava Beans in the Dead of Night
  17. Chapter 12 The Crime
  18. Chapter 13 The “Buddhist Head Shaving Ritual” in Nightmares
  19. Chapter 14 Monk Wu’s Sheep Hearts
  20. Chapter 15 The Captured Flying Thief
  21. Chapter 16 The Dharma-Protecting Divine Bullock
  22. Chapter 17 The “Gonpo” in Nightmares
  23. Chapter 18 The Old Mountain
  24. Chapter 19 The “Nirvana” of Nightmares
  25. Chapter 20 The Pilgrimage
  26. Chapter 21 Chicken Feather Notices
  27. Chapter 22 The Vanished Water of Xixia
  28. Chapter 23 The Broken Shoes on the Monastery Gate
  29. Chapter 24 The Wooden Donkeys of Diamond Clan
  30. Chapter 25 The Butcher’s Heart
  31. Chapter 26 The Fifth “Nightmare”: The Curse of Ajia
  32. Chapter 27 Another Way Snow Feather or Her Mother Died
  33. Chapter 28 The Leather for Ritual Implements
  34. Chapter 29 The Monk Who Broke His Vow
  35. Chapter 30 Cave of the Red Bats
  36. Chapter 31 Cripple Big Walking the Leather
  37. Chapter 32 The Sunshine of Early Winter
  38. Chapter 33 The Bodhisattva
  39. Chapter 34 Issuer of the Curse
  40. Chapter 35 Searching for One’s Origin, or a Prophecy
  41. Chapter 36 The Destined Illusory Bliss
  42. Chapter 37 The Soul’s Progress
  43. Chapter 38 A Ritual from Antiquity
  44. Chapter 39 Coda
  45. Postface: “Shattering” and “Transcendence”
  46. Back Cover