The Columbia history of Chinese literature /
Begins with the linguistic and intellectual foundations of Chinese literature and moves successively through verse, prose, fiction, drama, and commentary and criticism; it then closes with popular and peripheral manifestations. A special feature is the focus on such contextual subjects as the histor...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the origins and impact of literati culture
- pt. 1. Foundations. Language and script / Victor H. Mair
- Myth / Anne Birrell
- Philosophy and literature in early China / Michael Puett
- The thirteen classics / Paul Rakita Goldin
- Shih-ching poetry and didacticism in ancient Chinese literature / Jeffrey Riegel
- The supernatural / Rania Huntington
- Wit and humor / Karin Myhre
- Proverbs / John S. Rohsenow
- Buddhist literature / Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer and Victor H. Mair
- Taoist heritage / Judith Magee Boltz
- Women in literature / Anne Birrell
- pt. 2. Poetry. Sao, fu, parallel prose, and related genres / Christopher Leigh Connery
- Poetry from 200 b.c.e. to 600 c.e. / Robert Joe Cutter
- Poetry of the Táng Dynasty / Paul W. Kroll
- Tzú / Stuart Sargent
- Sung Dynasty shih poetry / Michael A. Fuller
- Yüan San-chú̈ / Wayne Schlepp
- Mongol-Yüan classical verse (shih) / Richard John Lynn
- Poetry of the fourteenth century / John Timothy Wixted
- Poetry of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Daniel Bryant
- Poetry of the seventeenth century / Richard John Lynn
- Poetry of the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries / Daniel Bryant
- Chíng lyric / David McCraw
- Modern poetry / Michelle Yeh
- Poetry and painting / Charles Hartman
- pt. 3. Prose. The literary features of historical writing / Stephen Durrant
- Early biography / William H. Nienhauser, Jr.
- Expository prose / Ronald Egan
- Records of anomalies / Hu Ying
- Travel literature / James M. Hargett
- Sketches / James M. Hargett
- Twentieth-century prose / Philip F.C. Williams
- pt. 4. Fiction. Táng tales / William H. Nienhauser, Jr.
- Vernacular stories / Yenna Wu
- Full-length vernacular fiction / Wai-Yee Li
- Traditional vernacular novels : some lesser-known works / Daria Berg
- The later classical tale / Allan H. Barr
- Fiction from the end of the empire to the beginning of the republic, 1897-1916 / Milena Dolez̆elová-Velingerová
- Twentieth-century fiction / Philip F.C. Williams
- China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan during the 1980s and 1990s / Helmut Martin
- pt. 5. Drama. Traditional dramatic literature / Wilt L. Idema
- Twentieth-century spoken drama / Xiaomei Chen
- pt. 6. Commentary criticism, and interpretation. The rhetoric of premodern prose style / Christoph Harbsmeier
- Classical exegesis / Haun Saussy
- Literary theory and criticism / Dore J. Levy
- Traditional fiction commentary / David L. Rolston
- pt. 7. Popular and peripheral manifestations. Balladry and popular song / Anne Birrell
- Tun-huang literature / Niel Schmid
- The oral-formulaic tradition / Anne E. McLaren
- Regional literatures / Mark Bender
- Ethnic minority literature / Mark Bender
- The translator's turn: the birth of modern Chinese language and fiction / Lydia H. Liu
- The reception of Chinese literature in Korea / Emanuel Pastreich
- The reception of Chinese literature in Japan / Emanuel Pastreich
- The reception of Chinese literature in Vietnam / Emanuel Pastreich.