本书故事选自《警示通言》第二十八卷。白娘子的故事是流通很广的一个民间故事，几乎家喻户晓。关于白蛇化身为人，蛊惑男人的故事虽然可以上溯到唐代的传奇小说，但是，真正将白蛇写成一个很有人性的女妖，却是从这一篇《白娘子永镇雷峰塔》才开始。在六十家小说所收的话本《西湖三塔记》里，白蛇也仍然只是个专门吃人的可怕妖怪。从《白娘子永镇雷峰塔》这篇以后，所有的白蛇故事，才都将白蛇写成一个善解人意的可爱女性。

Contemporary Chinese film and literature often draw on time-honored fantastical texts and tales which were founded in the milieu of patriarchy, parental authority, heteronormativity, nationalism, and anthropocentrism. Author Cathy Yue Wang examines the processes by which modern authors and filmmakers reshape these traditional tales to develop new narratives that interrogate the...(展开全部)

當代中國電影與文學作品常取材自源於父權制度、家長權威、 異性戀本位、民族主義與人類中心主義的奇幻文本與傳說。Cathy Yue Wang檢視現今作家與電影製作人如何重塑這些傳統故事，以發展出質疑根深柢固的父權範式的新敘事。在嚴謹分析下，王越勾勒出內容與敘事方面的變化，使當代詮釋能在被重述的故事中，重思性別政治與背景。 透過廣泛的跨媒體方法與對互文性的細緻理解，本書的研究為全球化與後現代世界裡的學院派與通俗話語，在過去與現在、傳統與當代、文本與現實之間持續進行的相互妥協有所貢獻。《蛇精姊妹與鬼女兒：中國傳統志怪故事的女性主義改編》（Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy）對於傳統故事的核心元素，如性別與...(展开全部)

Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You’re not alone. AI is everywhere—and few things are surrounded by so much hype, misinformation, and misunderstanding. In AI Snake Oil, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor cut through the confusion to give you an essential understanding of how AI works and why it o...(展开全部)