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• Chinese Literature
• Chinese Drama
• Chinese Poetry
• China, Sung Dynasty

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The Columbia History of Chinese Literature

by Victor H. Mair. 1342 pgs.

Contributors:

   Victor H. Mair

Publisher:

   Columbia University Press

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  2001

Subjects:

Chinese Literature--History And Criticism

	CONTENTS
	Prolegomenon	xi
	Preface	xv
	Acknowledgments	xix
	Abbreviations	xxi
	Map of China	xxii
	Introduction: The Origins and Impact of Literati Culture	1
	I. FOUNDATIONS
	Language and Script,	19
	Myth,	58
	Philosophy and Literature in Early China,	70
	The Thirteen Classics,	86
	Shih-ching Poetry and Didacticism in Ancient Chinese Literature,	97
	The Supernatural,	110
	Wit and Humor,	132
	Proverbs,	149
	Buddhist Literature,	160
	Taoist Heritage,	173
	Women in Literature,	194
	II. POETRY
	Sao, Fu , Parallel Prose, and Related Genres,	223
	Poetry from 200 to 600 ,	248
	Poetry of the T'ang Dynasty,	274
	Tz'u ,	314
	Sung Dynasty Shih Poetry,	337
	Yüan San-ch'ü , wayne schlepp 370
	Mongol-Yüan Classical Verse ( Shih ),	383
	Poetry of the Fourteenth Century,	390
	Poetry of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries,	399
	Poetry of the Seventeenth Century,	410
	Poetry of the Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries,	429
	Ch'ing Lyric,	444
	Modern Poetry,	453
	Poetry and Painting,	466
	III. PROSE
	The Literary Features of Historical Writing,	493
	Early Biography, WILLIAM H. NIENHAUSER, JR. 511
	Expository Prose,	527
	Records of Anomalies,	542
	Travel Literature,	555
	Sketches,	560
	Twentieth-Century Prose,	566
	IV. FICTION
	T'ang Tales,	579
	Vernacular Stories,	595
	Full-Length Vernacular Fiction,	620
	Traditional Vernacular Novels: Some Lesser-Known Works,	659
	The Later Classical Tale,	675
	Fiction from the End of the Empire to the Beginning of the Republic (1897–1916),	697
	Twentieth-Century Fiction,	732
	China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan During the 1980s and 1990s,	758
	V. DRAMA
	Traditional Dramatic Literature,	785
	Twentieth-Century Spoken Drama,	848
	VI. COMMENTARY, CRITICISM, AND INTERPRETATION
	The Rhetoric of Premodern Prose Style,	881
	Classical Exegesis,	909
	Literary Theory and Criticism,	916
	Traditional Fiction Commentary,	940
	VII. POPULAR AND PERIPHERAL MANIFESTATIONS
	Balladry and Popular Song,	953
	Tun-huang Literature,	964
	The Oral-Formulaic Tradition,	989
	Regional Literatures,	1015
	Ethnic Minority Literature,	1032
	The Translator's Turn: The Birth of Modern Chinese Language and Fiction,	1055
	The Reception of Chinese Literature in Korea,	1067
	The Reception of Chinese Literature in Japan,	1079
	The Reception of Chinese Literature in Vietnam,	1096
	Suggestions for Further Reading	1105
	Principal Chinese Dynasties and Periods	1153
	Romanization Schemes for Modern Standard Mandarin	1155
	Glossary of Terms	1161
	Glossary of Names	1179
	Glossary of Titles	1213
	Index	1241
	Contributors	1335

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