Ways With Words - Writing About Reading Texts From Early China

Informationen zum Autor Pauline Yu is Dean of Humanities and Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of California! Los Angeles. Peter Bol is Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. Willard Peterson is Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. Klappentext This is an interdisciplinary collection of articles analyzing seven classic premodern Chinese texts that are provided in translation. Zusammenfassung Presents essays on seven core, premodern classical Chinese texts. This book draws from literature, philosophy, religion, and art history and challenges the presumption of a monolithic Chinese tradition that has been promoted by scholars and popular culture alike, both in China and the West.

Product details

• Authors: Pauline Yu, Pauline Bol Yu, Yu/Bol
• Assisted by: Peter Bol (Editor), Bol Peter (Editor), Stephen Owen (Editor), Willard Peterson (Editor), Peterson Willard (Editor), Pauline Yu (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.09.2000
• EAN: 9780520224667
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22466-7
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Studies on China; Studies on China
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Asia / China, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, General & world history, Chinese, Literary studies: general, Asian History, General and world history