CHINESE LITERATURE: A Historical Introduction
Published by NY. 1961. The Ronald Press Co.
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Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.Chris Fessler, Bookseller
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red full cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo) with black & gilt spine label. no dustwrapper. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. tiny nick along the front bottom. edges clean. contents free of markings. nice clean vintage copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. printing # not given (copyright pg. has "2~VR"). xii+665p. 4 b&w figures. index. ancient literature. ancient religion. philosophy. cosmology. chinese history. chinese literature. poetry. folklore. mythology. lao~tzu. confucian analects. ch'u elegies. the fu. medieval chinese literature. songs of the t'ang dynasty. the five dynasties. sung poetry. golden period of the tz'u. liao and chin. the rise of drama in china. ming prose and poetry. ~ IT IS welcome news to all students of the Far East that an important gap in the field of Chinese literature has now been filled, and in a competent, scholarly and worthy manner, in Professor Ch'en's book. A history of Chinese literature, of the forms and creative urges in prose and poetry, has been lacking; to my knowledge, not even an elementary outline of Chinese literary periods and developments exists. Professor Herbert A. Giles' History of Chinese Literature, written about half a century ago, was a misnomer; it was a series of attempted essays on certain Chinese works, and was not even an outline covering the successive periods. There have been translations of different poets, studies of certain interesting aspects, and compilations of much~needed reference material. But a comprehensive outline of the story of Chinese literature has been conspicuous by its absence. What we have here is not merely a brief skeleton of the facts; it is most gratifying to find that it is a full, comprehensive, and ambitious work which embodies the results of the author's lifetime of studies ad inSights in this field.…
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- CHINESE LITERATURE: A Historical Introduction
- Author
- Ch'en Shou~Yi
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- NY. 1961. The Ronald Press Co.
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- Hardcover
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- philosophy, poetry, religion
Chris Fessler, Bookseller
Howell, MI, U.S.A.
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