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Author: Kang-i Sun Chang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 830
ISBN-13: 9780521855594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStephen Owen is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese at Harvard University. --Book Jacket.
Author: Kang-i Sun Chang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 748
ISBN-13: 9780521855587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStephen Owen is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese at Harvard University. --Book Jacket.
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: Zhongwei Shen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-06-04
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1107135842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA one-stop, comprehensive account of the key developments in the phonological history of Chinese.
Author: Herbert Allen Giles
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 474
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Victor H. Mair
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983-11-10
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780521247610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTun-huang Popular Narratives presents authoritative translations of four vernacular Chinese stories, taken from fragmentary texts usually referred to as pien-wen or 'transformation texts'. Dating from the late T'ang (618-907) and Five Dynasties (907-959) periods, the texts were discovered early last century in a cave at Tun-huang, in Chinese Central Asia. However, written down in an early colloquial language by semi-literate individuals and posing formidable philological problems, the texts have not been studied critically before. Nevertheless they represent the only surviving primary evidence of a widespread and flourishing world of popular entertainment during these centuries. The tales deal with both religious (mostly Buddhist) and secular themes, and make exciting and vivid reading.
Author: Ming Zuoqiu
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780231067157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vivid chronicle of events in the feudal states of China between 722 and 468 B.C., the Tso Chuan has long been considered both a major historical document and and an influential literary model. Covering over 250 years, these historical narratives focus not only on the political, diplomatic, and military affairs of ancient China, but also on its economic and cultural developments during the turbulent era when warring feudal states were gradually working towards unification. Ending shortly after Confucius' death in 479 B.C., the Tso Chuan provides a background to the life and thought of Confucius and his followers that is available in no other work.
Author: Wu Cheng'en
Publisher: Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
Published: 2018-08-14
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9812298894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe bestselling Journey to the West comic book by artist Chang Boon Kiat is now back in a brand new fully coloured edition. Journey to the West is one of the greatest classics in Chinese literature. It tells the epic tale of the monk Xuanzang who journeys to the West in search of the Buddhist sutras with his disciples, Sun Wukong, Sandy and Pigsy. Along the way, Xuanzang's life was threatened by the diabolical White Bone Spirit, the menacing Red Child and his fearsome parents and, a host of evil spirits who sought to devour Xuanzang's flesh to attain immortality. Bear witness to the formidable Sun Wukong's (Monkey God) prowess as he takes them on, using his Fiery Eyes, Golden Cudgel, Somersault Cloud, and quick wits! Be prepared for a galloping read that will leave you breathless!
Author: Haruo Shirane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-12-31
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1316368289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. The book is arranged topically in a series of short, accessible chapters for easy access and reference, giving insight into both canonical texts and many lesser known, popular genres, from centuries-old folk literature to the detective fiction of modern times. The various period introductions provide an overview of recurrent issues that span many decades, if not centuries. The book also places Japanese literature in a wider East Asian tradition of Sinitic writing and provides comprehensive coverage of women's literature as well as new popular literary forms, including manga (comic books). An extensive bibliography of works in English enables readers to continue to explore this rich tradition through translations and secondary reading.
Author: Willard J. Peterson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-04-07
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1316445046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 9, Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes which together explore the political, social and economic developments of the Ch'ing Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the arrival of Western military power. Across fifteen chapters, a team of leading historians explore how the eighteenth century's greatest contiguous empire in terms of geographical size, population, wealth, cultural production, political order and military domination peaked and then began to unravel. The book sheds new light on the changing systems deployed under the Ch'ing dynasty to govern its large, multi-ethnic Empire and surveys the dynasty's complex relations with neighbouring states and Europe. In this compelling and authoritative account of a significant era of early modern Chinese history, the volume illustrates the ever-changing nature of the Ch'ing Empire, and provides context for the unforeseeable challenges that the nineteenth century would bring.
