The Columbia history of Chinese literature / Victor H. Mair, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mair, Victor H., 1943-

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature--History and criticism.

Chinese literature.

Genre:

Reference works.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xx, 1342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2001]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : the origins and impact of literati culture

pt. 1. Foundations. Language and script / Victor H. Mair

Myth / Anne Birrell

Philosophy and literature in early China / Michael Puett

The thirteen classics / Paul Rakita Goldin

Shih-ching poetry and didacticism in ancient Chinese literature / Jeffrey Riegel

The supernatural / Rania Huntington

Wit and humor / Karin Myhre

Proverbs / John S. Rohsenow

Buddhist literature / Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer and Victor H. Mair

Taoist heritage / Judith Magee Boltz

Women in literature / Anne Birrell

pt. 2. Poetry. Sao, fu, parallel prose, and related genres / Christopher Leigh Connery

Poetry from 200 b.c.e. to 600 c.e. / Robert Joe Cutter

Poetry of the Táng Dynasty / Paul W. Kroll

Tzú / Stuart Sargent

Sung Dynasty shih poetry / Michael A. Fuller

Yüan San-chú̈ / Wayne Schlepp

Mongol-Yüan classical verse (shih) / Richard John Lynn

Poetry of the fourteenth century / John Timothy Wixted

Poetry of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Daniel Bryant

Poetry of the seventeenth century / Richard John Lynn

Poetry of the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries / Daniel Bryant

Chíng lyric / David McCraw

Modern poetry / Michelle Yeh

Poetry and painting / Charles Hartman

pt. 3. Prose. The literary features of historical writing / Stephen Durrant

Early biography / William H. Nienhauser, Jr.

Expository prose / Ronald Egan

Records of anomalies / Hu Ying

Travel literature / James M. Hargett

Sketches / James M. Hargett

Twentieth-century prose / Philip F.C. Williams

pt. 4. Fiction. Táng tales / William H. Nienhauser, Jr.

Vernacular stories / Yenna Wu

Full-length vernacular fiction / Wai-Yee Li

Traditional vernacular novels : some lesser-known works / Daria Berg

The later classical tale / Allan H. Barr

Fiction from the end of the empire to the beginning of the republic, 1897-1916 / Milena Dolez̆elová-Velingerová

Twentieth-century fiction / Philip F.C. Williams

China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan during the 1980s and 1990s / Helmut Martin

pt. 5. Drama. Traditional dramatic literature / Wilt L. Idema

Twentieth-century spoken drama / Xiaomei Chen

pt. 6. Commentary criticism, and interpretation. The rhetoric of premodern prose style / Christoph Harbsmeier

Classical exegesis / Haun Saussy

Literary theory and criticism / Dore J. Levy

Traditional fiction commentary / David L. Rolston

pt. 7. Popular and peripheral manifestations. Balladry and popular song / Anne Birrell

Tun-huang literature / Niel Schmid

The oral-formulaic tradition / Anne E. McLaren

Regional literatures / Mark Bender

Ethnic minority literature / Mark Bender

The translator's turn: the birth of modern Chinese language and fiction / Lydia H. Liu

The reception of Chinese literature in Korea / Emanuel Pastreich

The reception of Chinese literature in Japan / Emanuel Pastreich

The reception of Chinese literature in Vietnam / Emanuel Pastreich.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1105-1152) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0231109849

9780231109840

9780231109857

0231109857

OCLC:

46364807