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Ways with Words: Writing about Reading Texts from Early China Volume 24
Contributor(s): Yu, Pauline (Editor), Bol, Peter (Editor), Owen, Stephen (Editor)
ISBN: 0520224663     ISBN-13: 9780520224667
Publisher: University of California Press
OUR PRICE:   $33.61  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: September 2000
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Annotation: Ways with Words presents interpretive essays by scholars from different disciplines on seven core pre-modern classical Chinese texts. The remarkable diversity of these works -- drawn from literature, philosophy, religion, and art history -- challenges the presumption of a monolithic Chinese tradition that has been promoted by scholars and popular culture alike, both in China and the West.

The texts themselves include a poem from the Classic of Poetry compiled in the sixth century B.C.E.; passages from Mencius and Zhuangzi; the Heart Sutra; a poem by Du Fu, and the Biography of Yingying by Yuan Zhen, both written during the Tang dynasty; and Notes on the Method for the Brush, a tenth-century text attributed to Jing Hao. Both the original Chinese versions and translations are provided for each primary text. There are at least two interpretive essays -- when possible from scholars in different fields -- on each work. The volume as a whole demonstrates the various ways in which the modern Western reader can confront the impressive variety of texts from the classical Chinese tradition.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia - China
Dewey: 001.309
LCCN: 99059753
Series: Studies on China
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.94" W x 8.94" (1.08 lbs) 292 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Chinese
 
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Ways with Words presents interpretive essays by scholars from different disciplines on seven core, premodern classical Chinese texts. The remarkable diversity of these works--drawn from literature, philosophy, religion, and art history--challenges the presumption of a monolithic Chinese tradition that has been promoted by scholars and popular culture alike, both in China and the West.



The texts themselves include a poem from the Classic of Poetry compiled in the sixth century b.c.e.; passages from Mencius and Zhuangzi; the Heart Sutra; a poem by Du Fu and the Biography of Yingying by Yuan Zhen, both written during the Tang dynasty; and Notes on the Method for the Brush, a tenth-century text attributed to Jing Hao. Both the original Chinese versions and the translations are provided for each primary text. There are at least two essays--when possible from scholars in different fields--on each work. The volume as a whole demonstrates the various ways in which the modern Western reader can confront the impressive variety of texts from the classical Chinese tradition.