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Zhang Longxi, an internationally-renowned scholar of comparative literature is your guide through the three millennia-long history of Chinese literature from the mythical age of oracle bones to the present day.
List of contents
1. Pre-Qin Antiquity and Foundational Texts of the Chinese Cultural Tradition
2. The
Book of Poetry and the
Songs of Chu 3. The First Great Empire: The Han Dynasty
4. Another Wave of Intellectual Excitement: The Wei-Jin Period
5. The Rise of
Wen or Literature: The Southern and the Northern Dynasties
6. The Splendor of Poetry: From the Early to the High Tang Period
7. The Twin Stars of Tang Poetry: Li Bo and Du Fu
8. Different Orientations in Mid-Tang Poetry
9. Literary Prose, Fiction, and Late Tang Poetry
10. Towards the Height of a Refined Culture: The Northern Song Dynasty
11. From Ouyang Xiu to Su Shi: The Splendor of Northern Song Literature
12. Literature from the Late Northern to the Early Southern Song Dynasty
13. From Lu You to Xin Qiji: Poetry and
Ci Lyric in the Southern Song
14. Literature of the Late Southern Song and the Jin
15. Literature of the Yuan Dynasty
16. Poetry of the Ming Dynasty
17. Mid- and Late Ming Literature: Songs, Fiction, Drama and Essays
18. Poetry and Prose of the Qing: From Early to the Middle Period
19. Drama, Fiction and Late Qing Literature
20. Modern Chinese Literature
About the author
Zhang Longxi, PhD Harvard, is Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation at the City University of Hong Kong. He is a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and of Academia Europaea, and was President of the International Comparative Literature Association for 2016-2019. He serves as an Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of World Literature and an Advisory Editor of
New Literary History. He is the author of more than 20 books in English and Chinese and numerous articles on Chinese literature and East-West comparative literature.
