The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature

Overview

With its fresh translations by newer voices in the field, its broad scope, and its flowing style, this anthology places the immense riches of Chinese literature within easy reach. Ranging from the beginnings to 1919, this abridged version of The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature retains all the characteristics of the original. In putting together these selections Victor H. Mair interprets "literature" very broadly to include not just literary fiction, poetry, and drama, but folk and popular literature, lyrics and arias, elegies and rhapsodies, biographies, autobiographies and memoirs, letters, criticism and theory, and travelogues and jokes.

Details

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2001-01-03

Pages

704

Language

EN

Categories

Literary Criticism / Asian / Chinese, History / Asia / China, Reference / Research, Reference / General

ISBN-13

9780231505628