Tower for the Summer Heat

List of contents

1. A Tower for the Summer Heat
2. Return-to-Right Hall
3. House of Gathered Refinements
4. The Cloud-Scraper
5. Homing Crane Lodge
6. Nativity Room

About the author

Li Yu. Translation, preface, and notes by Patrick Hanan

Summary

Hanan has translated six of the twelve stories in the Sh'ier lou collection, which is the most famous individual collection of vernacular stories from premodern China. With Hanan's introduction and notes, and containing Li Yu's emphasis marks, notes, and critiques, this volume will interest students of Chinese literature and general readers alike.

Product details

• Authors: Yu Li, Li Yu, Yu Li Yu, Li Yu, LI (Book Review Editor Yu, Yu Li
• Assisted by: Patrick Hanan (Translation), Hanan Patrick (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.1998
• EAN: 9780231113854
• ISBN: 978-0-231-11385-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Translations from the Asian Classics; Translations from the Asian Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Literary essays, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Classic fiction: general and literary