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Great Books of China

By Frances Wood

Great Books of China Contemporary literature

Great Books of China

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Discover - or rediscover - the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. Great Books of China offers concise introductions - each of them accompanied by generous quotation (in English) from the book in question - to sixty-six works in the canon of Chinese literature. The books chosen reflect the chronological and thematic breadth of Chinese literary tradition, ranging from such classics as The Book of Songs and the Confucian Analects, through popular dramas and novels (The Romance of the Western Chamber; The Water Margin), twentieth-century political and biographical works (Quotations from Chairman Mao, the autobiography of the last emperor) and modern novels that are little known in the West (Memories of South Peking, Six Chapters from a Cadre School Life). Frances Wood presents a comprehensive, accessible and richly informative primer for the uninitiated; a box of delights that opens up an entire literary culture to the inquisitive reader.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2023-08-03
Publication Date:
2023-08-03
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
183793021X
ISBN13:
9781837930210
Weight:
224 g
Height:
130 cm
Width:
191 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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