Classical Chinese Literature: an Anthology of Translations From Antiquity to the Tang Dynasty

Name: Classical Chinese Literature: an Anthology of Translations From Antiquity to the Tang Dynasty
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ISBN: 9780231096768

ISBN-10: 0231096763

ISBN-13: 9780231096768

Edition: 2000

Authors: John Minford, Joseph S. M. Lau

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The summation of more than 2000 years of one of the world's most august literary traditions, this volume also represents the achievements of 300 years of Western scholarship on China.

Book details

List price: $175.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 8/24/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1248
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.92" long x 0.27" tall
Weight: 3.938
Language: English

John Minford studied Chinese at Oxford and has taught in China, Hong Kong, and New Zealand.

Joseph S. M. Lau is professor of Chinese Literature at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He is the editor of Chinese Stories from Taiwanand coeditor of Traditional Chinese Stories: Themes and Variationsand Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas: 1919-1949.Howard Goldblatt is professor of East Asian languages and literatures at the University of Notre Dame and an internationally renowned translator. He has published English translations of more than thirty novels and short story collections and has authored many books on Chinese literature.



Foreword



Editors' Introduction: "Music from Two Rooms"



Before the Han Dynasty (to 206 B.C.)



Pattern and Sign: The Chinese Language


Script


Oracle Bones


Bronze Inscriptions


Calligraphy


Outlines, Characters, Signs


Further Reading


Editors' Note



Heavenly Questions: Early Myths and Legends


Further Reading


Editors' Note



The Book of Songs: The Earliest Anthology of Chinese Poetry


Introduction



Sixty Songs in versions spanning two and a half centuries


Further Reading


Editors' Note



The Source: Prose of the Ancients: Early Narrative and Philosophy


Narrative


Philosophy


Further Reading


Editors' Note



The Songs of the South: Shamanism and Poetry


Introduction



Further Reading



The Han Dynasty and the Period of Disunion (206 B.C.-A.D. 589)



Red and Purple Threads: Rhapsodies from the Han and Six Dynasties


Introduction



Further Reading



Mortals and Immortals: Historical and Pseudo-Historical Writings from the Han and Six Dynasties


Mortals


Doctors, Diviners and Magicians


Immortals


Further Reading



We Fought South of the City Wall: Ballads and Folksongs of the Han and Six Dynasties


Introduction: Ballads from the Music Bureau



Han Dynasty


The Six Dynasties


Further Reading



Tigers Setting the Wind Astir: Poets of the Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties


Introduction



Further Reading



Bamboo Grove, Golden Valley, Orchid Pavilion: Coteries of the Third and Fourth Centuries


Introduction



Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove


Golden Valley


Orchid Pavilion


Further Reading


Editors' Note



Tao Yuanming (365-427): The Gentleman of the Five Willow Trees


Introduction



Further Reading



The Murmuring Stream and the Weary Road: Xie Lingyun and Bao Zhao


Further Reading



New Songs from a Jade Terrace: Court Poetry of the Southern Dynasties


Introduction



Further Reading



Green Bag and Yellow Covers: A Miscellany of Prose from the Han and Six Dynasties


Further Reading



The Carving of Dragons: Early Literary Criticism


Introduction



Further Reading


Editors' Note



Spirits and Humors: Strange Tales from the Six Dynasties


Further Reading



The Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties (589-960)



The Great River: Poets of the Early Tang


Introduction



Further Reading



Wang Wei (701-761): Poet and Painter


Introduction



Further Reading



Li Bo (701-762): The Banished Immortal


Introduction



Further Reading



Du Fu (712-770): The Sage of Poetry


Introduction



Further Reading


Editors' Note



Spring, River, Flowers, Moon, Night: Poets of the High Tang


Introduction



Further Reading



Stones Where the Haft Rotted: Poets of the Mid Tang


Introduction



Further Reading



Bo Juyi (772-846): Madly Singing in the Mountains


Introduction



Further Reading


Editors' Note



The Patterned Lute: Poets of the Late Tang


Introduction



Further Reading


Editors' Note



Red Leaf: Women Poets from the First Century B.C. to the Tenth Century A.D.


Introduction



Further Reading



Cold Mountain: Poetry of Zen and the Tao


Further Reading



Return to the Source: Essays of the Tang Dynasty


Introduction



Further Reading



The World in a Pillow: Classical Tales of the Tang Dynasty


Introduction



Further Reading



Turning the Scrolls: Ballads and Stories from Dunhuang


Introduction



Further Reading



Among the Flowers: Lyrics of the Tang and Five Dynasties


Introduction



Further Reading


Note on Pronunciation


Conversion Tables: Hanyu Pinyin to Wade-Giles; Wade Giles to Hanyu Pinyin


Further Reading


Major Chinese Dynasties and Periods


List of Permissions


Index of Authors


Index of Translators and Commentators