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Author: Joseph S. M. Lau
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 802
ISBN-13: 9780231138413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anthology of Chinese fiction, poetry, and essays written during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Published: 1965
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ISBN-13: 9780394480145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Owen
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 1212
ISBN-13: 9780393971064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compendium of traditional Chinese literature offers a broad variety of genres including poetry, letters, stories, excerpts from novels and drama, philosophical writings, jokes, and other prose forms.
Author: Mingwei Song
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2018-09-04
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 0231542542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This golden age has not only resurrected the genre but also subverted its own conventions. Going beyond political utopianism and technological optimism, contemporary Chinese writers conjure glittering visions and subversive experiments—ranging from space opera to cyberpunk, utopianism to the posthuman, and parodies of China’s rise to deconstructions of the myth of national development. This anthology showcases the best of contemporary science fiction from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People’s Republic of China. In fifteen short stories and novel excerpts, The Reincarnated Giant opens a doorway into imaginary realms alongside our own world and the history of the future. Authors such as Lo Yi-chin, Dung Kai-cheung, Han Song, Chen Qiufan, and the Hugo winner Liu Cixin—some alive during the Cultural Revolution, others born in the 1980s—blur the boundaries between realism and surrealism, between politics and technology. They tell tales of intergalactic war; decoding the last message sent from an extinct human race; the use of dreams as tools to differentiate cyborgs and humans; poets’ strange afterlife inside a supercomputer; cannibalism aboard an airplane; and unchecked development that leads to uncontrollable catastrophe. At a time when the Chinese government promotes the “Chinese dream,” the dark side of the new wave shows a nightmarish unconscious. The Reincarnated Giant is an essential read for anyone interested in the future of the genre.
Author: 高行健
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9789629962456
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Gao Xingjian, 2000 Nobel Laureate in Literature, approaches his writing with a strong conviction of the purity of literature and its dignity as art. The result is what he calls "Cold Literature", personal, detached, apolitical and antipathetic to noisy slogan-mongering writing; yet this literature also manages to be compelling and engaging with the strongest cogency." "The present anthology contains many gems of Gao's works. It presents an all-round picture of Gao and his many talents - novelist, playwright, poet, painter, and theorist - and takes the reader into a world that is uniquely Gao's, the quest for the self and its salvation, the depth of his understanding of the tragedy of modern man and ultimately, the dignity of being human." "Cold Literature brings together for the first time two English translators of Gao Xingjian's works, Gilbert C. F. Fong and Mabel Lee. Some of the translations in this collection are newly produced, and others have been revised, so that the beauty and musicality of Gao's language are revealed in Chinese as well as in English."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Eliot Weinberger
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780811216050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides translations of more than two hundred-fifty poems by over forty poets, from early anonymous poetry through the T'ang and Sung dynasties.
Author: Victor H. Mair
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010-03-10
Total Pages: 1369
ISBN-13: 0231528515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Columbia History of Chinese Literature is a comprehensive yet portable guide to China's vast literary traditions. Stretching from earliest times to the present, the text features original contributions by leading specialists working in all genres and periods. Chapters cover poetry, prose, fiction, and drama, and consider such contextual subjects as popular culture, the impact of religion, the role of women, and China's relationship with non-Sinitic languages and peoples. Opening with a major section on the linguistic and intellectual foundations of Chinese literature, the anthology traces the development of forms and movements over time, along with critical trends, and pays particular attention to the premodern canon.
Author: Kang-i Sun Chang
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 932
ISBN-13: 9780804732314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book also includes an extended section of criticism by and about women writers.
Author: Qu Yuan
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2011-07-07
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 0141971266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Songs of the South is an anthology first compiled in the second century A.D. Its poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, are grouped under seventeen titles and contain all that we know of Chinese poetry's ancient beginnings. The earliest poems were composed in the fourth century B.C. and almost half of them are traditionally ascribed to Qu Yuan.
Author: Martha Cheung Pui Yiu
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 1317639278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranslation has a long history in China. Down the centuries translators, interpreters, Buddhist monks, Jesuit priests, Protestant missionaries, writers, historians, linguists, and even ministers and emperors have all written about translation, and from an amazing array of perspectives. Such an exciting diversity of views, reflections and theoretical thinking about the art and business of translating is now brought together in a two-volume anthology. The first volume covers a time-frame from roughly the 5th century BCE to the twelfth century CE. It deals with translation in the civil and government context, and with the monumental project of Buddhist sutra translation. The second volume spans the 13th century CE to the Revolution of 1911, which brought an end to feudal China. It deals with the transmission of Western learning to China - a translation venture that changed the epistemological horizon and even the mindset of Chinese people. Comprising over 250 passages, most of which are translated into English for the first time here, the anthology is the first major source book to appear in English. It carries valuable primary material, allowing access into the minds of translators working in a time and space markedly different from ours, and in ways foreign or even inconceivable to us. The topics these writers discussed are familiar. But rather than a comfortable trip on well-trodden ground, the anthology invites us on an exciting journey of the imagination.
