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Series The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, Volume 1

Edited by Kang-I Sun Chang and Stephen Owen

Publication Date 2010

Hardback ISBN-10
0521855586

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521855587

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521855587

Overview

China has one of the longest continuous literary traditions in the world. From the beginnings of the Chinese written language to the lively world of internet literature, these two volumes tell the story of Chinese writing, both as an instrument of the state and as a medium for culture outside the state. The chapters, organized chronologically, treat not only poetry, drama, and fiction, but also historical writing and other prose forms. Written by internationally recognized experts in the field, the History frequently challenges current scholarship, from taking recent archeological discoveries into consideration to understanding Chinese modernity not as a sudden rupture with the past but as part of a longer process. The History offers both an integrated narrative, situating literature in its larger cultural context, and an overview of the key developments of the past millennia accessible to non-specialist readers as well as scholars and students of Chinese.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction

Early Chinese literature, beginnings through Western Han
by
Martin Kern

From the Eastern Han through the Western Jin (ad 25–317)
by
David R. Knechtges

From the Eastern Jin through the early Tang (317–649)
by
Xiaofei Tian

The cultural Tang (650–1020)
by
Stephen Owen

The Northern Song (1020–1126)
by
Ronald Egan

North and south: the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
by
Michael A. Fuller and Shuen-Fu Lin

Literature from the late Jin to the early Ming: ca 1230–ca 1375
by
Stephen H. West

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