| Paradoxes of Traditional Chinese Literature Contributor(s): Hung, Eva (Editor), Hegel, Robert E. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 9622015948 ISBN-13: 9789622015944 Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry - Literary Criticism | Asian - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Dewey: 895.109 |
| LCCN: 97161338 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.15 lbs) 283 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is a collection of nine articles on various paradoxical aspects of traditional Chinese literature. The literary works chosen for analysis range from the Tang dynasty to the late Qing. Besides providing new approaches to the well known classic authors such as Honglou Meng, Jin Ping Mei, Xixiang ji, and Liaozhai zhiyi, there are also detailed analysis of such diverse works as Liu Zongyuan's fiction, analogues of the Liu Yi story, lesser known versions of the play White Rabbit, as well as a number of late Qing fictions. Contributors to this volume include some of the most respected names in sinology today. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hegel, Robert E.: - Robert E. Hegel (Columbia PhD) is Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature in Arts and Sciences and Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Washington University, St. Louis. His publications include Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China (Stanford, 1998) and The Novel in Seventeenth Century China (Columbia, 1981) as well asthe translated volume Idle Talk Under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Collection (Washington, 2017) and numerous edited collections, book chapters, and articles. |