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 Format: Paperback, 1248 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231096771
Release Date: Jan 2, 2002
| |  | | | In Brief
The summation of more than two thousand years of one of the world´s most august literary traditions, this volume also represents the achievements of four hundred years of Western scholarship on China. The anthology includes over a thousand selections from the best translators -including Ezra Pound, Cyril Birch, and Burton Watson.
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The summation of more than two thousand years of one of the world´s most august literary traditions, this volume also represents the achievements of four hundred years of Western scholarship on China. The selections include poetry, drama, fiction, songs, biographies, and works of early Chinese philosophy and history rendered in English by the most renowned translators of classical Chinese literature: Arthur Waley, Ezra Pound, David Hawkes, James Legge, Burton Watson, Stephen Owen, Cyril Birch, A. C. Graham, Witter Bynner, Kenneth Rexroth, and others.Arranged chronologically and by genre, each chapter is introduced by definitive quotes and brief introductions chosen from classic Western sinological treatises. Beginning with discussions of the origins of the Chinese writing system and selections from the earliest "genre" of Chinese literature -the Oracle Bone inscriptions -the book then proceeds with selections from: · early myths and legends; · the earliest anthology of Chinese poetry, the Book of Songs; · early narrative and philosophy, including the I Ching, Tao-te Ching, and the Analects of Confucius; · rhapsodies, historical writings, magical biographies, ballads, poetry, and miscellaneous prose from the Han and Six Dynasties period; · the court poetry of the Southern Dynasties; · the finest gems of Tang poetry; and · lyrics, stories, and tales of the Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties eras. Special highlights include individual chapters covering each of the luminaries of Tang poetry: Wang Wei, Li Bo, Du Fu, and Bo Juyi; early literary criticism; women poets from the first to the tenth century C.E.; and the poetry of Zen and the Tao. Bibliographies, explanatory notes, copious illustrations, a chronology of major dynasties, and two-way romanization tables coordinating the Wade-Giles and pinyin transliteration systems provide helpful tools to aid students, teachers, and general readers in exploring this rich tradition of world literature.
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A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
An ambitious compilation of nearly 1,000 translations from the classical Chinese that include translators Ezra Pound, Burton Watson, Kenneth Rexroth, and many others. Arranged both chronologically and by genre, each chapter is prefaced by a short introduction; also included in this volume are bibliographies, notes, illustrations, a list of the major dynasties, and a coordination of the Wade-Giles and Pinyin transliteration systems
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