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The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
Victor Mair (Ed.)
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Description for The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
Paperback. Including works of varied genres from fiction and poetry to folk stories and elegies, travelogues and jokes to criticism and theory, this wide-ranging collection brings together more than two thousand years of great works in one portable volume. Editor(s): Mair, Victor H. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 1376 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DQ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 234 x 63. Weight in Grams: 1952.
Including works of varied genres from fiction and poetry to folk stories and elegies, travelogues and jokes to criticism and theory, this wide-ranging collection brings together more than two thousand years of great works in one portable volume.
Including works of varied genres from fiction and poetry to folk stories and elegies, travelogues and jokes to criticism and theory, this wide-ranging collection brings together more than two thousand years of great works in one portable volume.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
1376
Condition
New
Series
Translations from the Asian Classics
Number of Pages
1376
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231074292
SKU
V9780231074292
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About Victor Mair (Ed.)
Victor H. Mair is professor of Chinese languages and literature in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his many publications are Tun-huang Popular Narratives; Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis; T'ang Transformation Texts: A Study of the Buddhist Contribution to the Rise of Vernacular Fiction and Drama in ... Read more
Reviews for The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
Innovative, talented, lively, and splendidly readable. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society The list of translators reads like a Who's Who of Western Sinology. This is a book one can open at any page and immediately be drawn in by its great and appealing content. It is at once a reference book, with examples drawn from the huge corpus of ... Read more