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From the beginnings of the Chinese written language to the lively world of internet literature, these two volumes tell the story of Chinese writing. The chapters, organized chronologically, treat not only poetry, drama, and fiction, but also works of history and the informal prose of later eras.
List of contents
Volume 1: Introduction; 1. Early Chinese literature: beginnings through Western Han Martin Kern; 2. From the Eastern Han through the Western Jin (AD 25-317) David Knechtges; 3. From the Eastern Jin through the Early Tang (317-649) Xiaofei Tian; 4. The Cultural Tang (650-1020) Stephen Owen; 5. The Northern Song (1020-1126) Ronald Egan; 6. North and South: the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Michael Fuller and Shuen-fu Lin; 7. Literature from the Late Jin to the Early Ming: ca.1230-ca.1375 Stephen H. West; Bibliography; Glossary; Index; Volume 2: Introduction; 1. Literature of the Early Ming to Mid-Ming (1375-1572) Kang-i Sun Chang; 2. The literary culture of the Late Ming (1573-1644) Tina Lu; 3. Early Qing to 1723 Wai-yee Li; 4. The Literati Era and its demise (1723-1840) Shang Wei; 5. Prosimetric and verse narrative Wilt L. Idema; 6. Chinese literature from 1841 to 1937 David Der-wei Wang, Jing Tsu and Michel Hockx; 7. Chinese literature from 1937 to the present Michelle Yeh, Jing Tsu and Michel Hockx; Bibliography; Glossary; Index.
About the author
Kang-i Sun Chang is Professor of Chinese Literature at Yale University. Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese at Harvard University.
Summary
From the beginnings of the Chinese written language to the lively world of internet literature, these two volumes tell the story of Chinese writing. The chapters, organized chronologically, treat not only poetry, drama, and fiction, but also works of history and the informal prose of later eras.
