Legends from the Swiss Alps
Edited by Leung Ping-kuan,
Andrea Riemenschnitter
272 pages, 18 B/W illustrations, softback
H237mm x W170mm
English/ Chinese
ISBN 978-988-18583-1-3
HK$150 (inclusive of delivery)
US$25 + postage fee (outside Hong Kong delivery)
The Alps have always been
the prime icon of Swissness. Often idealized or aestheticized, this
world of high peaks shrouded in clouds, of dark forests and verdant
flower-studded meadows, of wild animals and isolated chalets with their
rugged peasants and cows and goats has generated a wealth of local
myths and legends. In the past the mountains were still the haunt of
spirits and demons. With today’s urbanization the Alpine world is perceived
in different ways – as a sublime, unspoiled world of beauty, purity
and innocence, the realm of freedom, a field of energy and mysticism;
as a link to one’s true nature, to one’s childhood; or as a place of
long winters, loneliness, depression, but also purity and redemption.
Collected by Swiss students of Chinese at the University of Zurich
as a pendant to their study of the ghost world in modern Chinese films,
the seventy-five legends published in this collection entertainingly
reveal the fascinating co-existence of the real and the imaginary in
the Swiss Alpine world.
阿爾卑斯山總予人「非常瑞士」的感覺。在這個經常被美化、典型化的國度，山峰雲朵繚繞，樹林陰森森的，青翠的草地裝點著野花；這兒有各種野獸，也有孤零零的農舍，住著粗獷的農夫和成群的牛羊──無數的本土神話和傳說，就在這種環境中孕育出來。昔日，還傳聞神祇和鬼魅會在山中出沒呢。今天，阿爾卑斯山開始城市化了，但人們卻以不同的方式去理解它，諸如：崇高感；原始的美麗、純樸和天真；自由奔放；活力與詭秘；連結著人的本性、靈魂與童年回憶；漫長的冬天、孤獨、壓抑、大自然的寂寥、純潔和救贖……
在蘇黎世大學一個漢學課程中，一群瑞士學生一邊研習現代中國電影中的鬼魅世界，一邊探討瑞士的高山傳說。本書收錄了七十五個傳說，引領讀者進入這個想像與現實並存、奇幻而多采的瑞士高山世界。
About the Author
Leung
Ping-kwan is Chair Professor of Comparative Literature at Lingnan University
in Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California
at San Diego. His academic publications include East Asian Culture & Modern
Literature in Chinese (2006)...
About the Author
Andrea Riemenschnitter
is Professor of Modern Chinese Language and Literature at the University
of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research interests focus on regionalist,
ethnographic and historical fiction, as well as theatre, travel literature,
and film and media studies...