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— About the databaseA comprehensive index of English-language scholarship on Hong Mai's Yijian zhi (Record of the Listener), built by the research team of Prof. Hsiao-Wen Cheng, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania.
《夷堅志》為南宋文人洪邁（1123–1202）所編纂。原書四百二十卷，收錄近三千篇志怪故事，是中國文學史上規模最大、最重要的志怪集之一，為研究十二世紀中國的宗教、社會與文化生活提供了無與倫比的第一手資料。今存二百零六卷，本資料庫依中華書局 1981 年校點本著錄 2,745 篇。
The Yijian zhi (Record of the Listener) was compiled by Hong Mai (1123–1202), a Southern Song statesman and scholar. Originally 420 chapters with nearly 3,000 tales of the extraordinary (zhiguai), it offers unparalleled insight into the religious, social, and cultural life of twelfth-century China. 206 chapters survive, indexed here — 2,745 stories — against the Zhonghua shuju 1981 critical edition.
The database marks story locations on interactive maps — both event settings and informants' birthplaces. Placename coordinates are research-verified against Harvard University's China Historical GIS (CHGIS), an authoritative source for historical Chinese placenames.
- Story maps: each story page shows an interactive map of its associated locations.
- Browse by location: explore every Song-dynasty placename on a full overview map, grouped by province.
- Location filtering: filter search results by region to surface stories from a given place.
This database is a research project of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, directed by Prof. Hsiao-Wen Cheng (Associate Professor). Prof. Cheng's research centers on Song-dynasty history, with particular interests in gender, medicine, religion, and popular culture. Faculty profile →
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