Chinese Essay An Anthology

Name: Chinese Essay An Anthology
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ISBN: 9780231121187

ISBN-10: 0231121180

ISBN-13: 9780231121187

Edition: 2000

Authors: David Pollard

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Though collections of Chinese fiction, poetry, and drama abound, there have been no English-language anthologies of Chinese essays on the market. Now, veteran sinologist David Pollard has selected and translated the best and most representative examples of Chinese prose writing from the third century to the contemporary period. Succinctly tracing the history of the genre in China in his introduction, Pollard then wittily and informatively introduces each writer chosen. The selections themselves include Ye Shengtao's ruminations of making a boat trip to visit his ancestors' graves, Fan Bao on life in prison, Gui Yougang's reminiscence of his mother, Yuan Mei's essay on borrowing books, and…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 372
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.540



Preface


Acknowledgements


Skeleton Chronology


Introduction


To Lead out the Army


Requiem for Myself


Address to the Crocodiles of Chaozhou


Goodbye to Penury


The Whip Vendor


My First Excursion to West Mountain


The Small Rock Pool West of the Hillock


A Monument to Rustic Temples


The Old Toper's Pavilion


The Terrace over the Void


Master Table Mountain


Red Cliff: One


Inscription for the Temple of Han Yu at Chaozhou


The Pavilion of Elation


The Mosquito Dialogue


My Mother: A Brief Life


The Xiangji Studio


Tiger Hill


The Rewards of Stupidity


The Full Moon Festival at the West Lake


Wang Yuesheng


Liu Jingting: Storyteller


The Jades of Yangzhou


Pleasant Diversions: Judging Beauty


Pleasant Diversions: Accomplishments


Pleasant Diversions: Literacy


Pleasant Diversions: Clothes


Life in Prison


Thoughts on Master Huang's Book Borrowing


Three Summer Pests


The Evolution of the Male Sex


Ah Jin


Confucius in Modern China


Relentless Rain


Reading in the Lavatory


On 'Passing the Itch'


The Ageing of Ghosts


In Praise of Mutes


The Ornamental Iron Mountain


Winter at White Horse Lake


Three Kinds of Boat


My Own Patch of Green


Intellectuals


Eating Melon Seeds


Autumn


Bombs in Yishan


Village School and Academy


The Winter Scene in Jiangnan


The View from the Rear


Traces of Wenzhou


The Lotus Pond by Moonlight


Sickness


Haircut


Listening to Plays


On the Road


Well-meant Words


A Temple Lodging


The Art of Listening


Cloak of Invisibility


Elegy


Chignon


The Religion of the Chinese


A Beating


The Last Word in Beauty and Ugliness


Footprints


Thus Friends Absent Speak


My Four Hypothetical Enemies


The Call of the Ruins


The Countryside of the Past


Today's Countryside


We Can't Bring Back the Past


Waiting for a Flower's Name


Shanghai People


Goodwives


References