Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts - Stories and Essays

Informationen zum Autor Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998)! hailed as twentieth-century China's "foremost man of letters!" is best known for his novel! Fortress Besieged! and his groundbreaking study of the Chinese literary canon! Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters. Christopher G. Rea is assistant professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of British Columbia. Klappentext This book brings together the essay collection "Written in the margins of life (Xie zai ren sheng bian shang)" and the short story collection "Human! beast! ghost (Ren shou gui)." Zusammenfassung This book brings together the essay collection "Written in the margins of life (Xie zai ren sheng bian shang)" and the short story collection "Human! beast! ghost (Ren shou gui)." Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroductionWritten in the Margins of Life and Human! Beast! GhostAuthor's Preface to the 1983 Editions of Written in the Margins of Life and Human! Beast! GhostWritten in the Margins of LifeDedicationAcknowledgmentsPrefaceThe Devil Pays a Nighttime Visit to Mr. Qian ZhongshuWindowsOn HappinessOn LaughterEatingReading Aesop's FablesOn Moral InstructionA PrejudiceExplaining Literary BlindnessOn WritersNotesHuman! Beast! GhostFirst Preface to the 1946 Kaiming EditionSecond Preface to the 1946 Kaiming EditionGod's DreamCatInspirationSouvenirNotesEditionsFurther Reading in EnglishTranslators

Product details

• Authors: Zhongshu Qian, Qian Zhongshu, Qian (EDT) Zhongshu, Zhongshu Zhongshu
• Assisted by: Christopher G. Rea (Editor), Rea Christopher G. (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2010
• EAN: 9780231152747
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15274-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Assisted by: Dennis Hu, Nathan Mao
• Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia; Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Essays, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary