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Discussion of the critical approach to Chinese poetry.

This anthology presents seventy translated and annotated short essays, or hsiao-pin, by fourteen well-known sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chinese writers. Hsiao-pin, characterized by spontaneity and brevity, were a relatively informal variation on the established classical prose style in which all scholars were trained. Written primarily to amuse and entertain the reader, hsiao-pin reflect the rise of individualism in the late Ming period and...

An innovative reference guide to Mandarin Chinese combining traditional and function-based grammar. Part A covers traditional grammatical categories: phrase order, nouns, verbs and specifiers. Part B is organised around language functions and situations such as: communcation strategies, making comparisons, giving and seeking information etc. Main features include: examples in pinyin, simplified and traditional characters, clear explanations, and accessible...

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 history of popular culture, the effect of religion upon literature, the role of women, and relationships with non-Sinitic languages and peoples.

"The young son of the head of the Chinese traders' association, the men licensed to deal with foreign merchants in the port of Guangzhou, is suddenly burdened with responsibility for his powerful family upon his father's sudden death. A latter-day Baoyu, but with far stronger sexual impulses, the son learns both to tame his own libido to some degree and to conduct himself prudently in the Guangzhou society of his time. All of this appears in a comparatively...

"The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature has long been a definitive resource for Chinese literature in translation, offering a complete overview of twentieth-century writing from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and making inroads into the twenty-first century as well. In this new edition Joseph S. M. Lau and Howard Goldblatt have selected fresh works from familiar authors and have augmented the collection with poetry, stories from the colonial...

Provides poems by the three greatest poetesses of the Tang dynasty, China's golden age. One of them, a slave and a courtesan, matched wits with some of the greatest poets of the time. Another one, a Taoist sister, was executed by imperial order for her outspoken criticism of government. The third, also a Taoist sister, was killed by a conspiracy of spurned suitors.

54 folktales, myths, legends, and popular tales from China.

Until now little of China's massive literary output of the last thirty years has been available to American readers. This landmark volume presents a generous sampling in translation of the literature written in the PRC from 1949 to the present. Included here are more than 200 selections: poems, stories, essays, a hsiang-sheng (comic dialogue), and excerpts from novels, plays, movie scripts, and an opera. Literature of the People's Republic of China...