Author: Kang-i Sun Chang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521855594
Category : Chinese literature
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese at Harvard University. --Book Jacket.
Author: Kang-i Sun Chang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521855587
Category : Chinese literature
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese at Harvard University. --Book Jacket.
Author: Victor H. Mair
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231528515
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1369
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The Columbia History of Chinese Literature is a comprehensive yet portable guide to China's vast literary traditions. Stretching from earliest times to the present, the text features original contributions by leading specialists working in all genres and periods. Chapters cover poetry, prose, fiction, and drama, and consider such contextual subjects as popular culture, the impact of religion, the role of women, and China's relationship with non-Sinitic languages and peoples. Opening with a major section on the linguistic and intellectual foundations of Chinese literature, the anthology traces the development of forms and movements over time, along with critical trends, and pays particular attention to the premodern canon.
Author: Victor H. Mair
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521247610
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Tun-huang Popular Narratives presents authoritative translations of four vernacular Chinese stories, taken from fragmentary texts usually referred to as pien-wen or 'transformation texts'. Dating from the late T'ang (618-907) and Five Dynasties (907-959) periods, the texts were discovered early last century in a cave at Tun-huang, in Chinese Central Asia. However, written down in an early colloquial language by semi-literate individuals and posing formidable philological problems, the texts have not been studied critically before. Nevertheless they represent the only surviving primary evidence of a widespread and flourishing world of popular entertainment during these centuries. The tales deal with both religious (mostly Buddhist) and secular themes, and make exciting and vivid reading.
Author: Herbert Allen Giles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese literature
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Author: Zhongwei Shen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108774199
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 441
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A comprehensive account of the phonological history of Chinese, exploring the development of its standard phonological systems over the past 2500 years. It will be a key reference work for historical linguists and phonologists in general, as well as being of particular interest to students and scholars of Chinese/Asian languages and their history.
Author: Ming Zuoqiu
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231067157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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A vivid chronicle of events in the feudal states of China between 722 and 468 B.C., the Tso Chuan has long been considered both a major historical document and and an influential literary model. Covering over 250 years, these historical narratives focus not only on the political, diplomatic, and military affairs of ancient China, but also on its economic and cultural developments during the turbulent era when warring feudal states were gradually working towards unification. Ending shortly after Confucius' death in 479 B.C., the Tso Chuan provides a background to the life and thought of Confucius and his followers that is available in no other work.
Author: Denis Crispin Twitchett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521243339
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period.
Author: Joel Kaye
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107028450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 531
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This book is a groundbreaking history of balance, exploring how a new model of equilibrium emerged during the medieval period.
Author: Willard J. Peterson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316445046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
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Volume 9, Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes which together explore the political, social and economic developments of the Ch'ing Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the arrival of Western military power. Across fifteen chapters, a team of leading historians explore how the eighteenth century's greatest contiguous empire in terms of geographical size, population, wealth, cultural production, political order and military domination peaked and then began to unravel. The book sheds new light on the changing systems deployed under the Ch'ing dynasty to govern its large, multi-ethnic Empire and surveys the dynasty's complex relations with neighbouring states and Europe. In this compelling and authoritative account of a significant era of early modern Chinese history, the volume illustrates the ever-changing nature of the Ch'ing Empire, and provides context for the unforeseeable challenges that the nineteenth century would bring.
