Discuss Royall Tyler, Japanese Tales.
Read/watch contexts before answering the questions. The contexts must select from Readings:1)Royall Tyler, Japanese Tales. (Pantheon) 2) Pu Songling; John Minford, translator. Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio(Penguin) 3) Shigeru Mizuki, The Birth of Kitaro(Drawn & Quarterly). 4) Early Chinese Fantastic Narratives. 5) Four Tang Dynasty Tales. 6) Collected JapaneseTales of Lafcadio Hearn.Films:Mr. Vampire(Hong Kong, 1985; Ricky Lau, dir.; 94 minutes)Onmyōji(Japan, 2001; Takita Yojiro, dir.; 112 minutes)Legend of the Demon Cat (Yao mao zhuan)(China, Hong Kong,Japan2017; Chen Kaige, dir.; 120minutes)The Enchanting Shadow(Hong Kong, 1960; Han Hsiang Li, dir.; 80minutes)A Chinese Ghost Story(Hong Kong, 1987; Ching Siu-tung, dir.; 92 minutes)Green Snake(Hong Kong, 1993; Tsui Hark, dir.; 98minutes)The Great Yōkai War (Japan, 2005; Miike Takashi, dir.; 127 minutes)Selected episodes from theGeGeGe no Kitarō anime series(Crunchyroll streaming)The Haunted Lantern (Japan, 1998; Tsushima Masaru, dir.; 96 minutes)Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan(Japan, 1959; Nakagawa Nobuo, dir.; 77 minutes)Tomie(Japan, 1998; Oikawa Ataru, dir.; 95minutes)My Neighbor Totoro(Japan, 1988; Miyazaki Hayao, dir.; 87minutes).
