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A Concise History of Chinese Literature
BRILL 2011; US$ 318.00Adopting new theoretical perspectives and using updated research, this book by a leading Chinese scholar seeks to provide a coherent, panoramic description of the development of premodern Chinese literature and its major characteristics. more...
Chinese Literature
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 9.99Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of more...
C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature
Columbia University Press 2004; US$ 59.99-- Choloe Starr, The China Quarterly more...
The Promise and Premise of Creativity
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 80.00The Promise and Premise of Creativity considers literature in the larger context of globalization and "the clash of cultures." Refuting the view that the study of literature is "useless," Eoyang argues that it expands three distinct intellectual skills: creative imagination, vicarious sympathy, and capacious intuition.With... more...
Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948 provides a compelling study of leading women writers in modern China, charting their literary works and life journeys to examine the politics and poetics of Chinese transcultural feminism that exceed the boundaries of bourgeois feminist selfhood. Unlike recent literary studies that... more...
Contested Modernities in Chinese Literature
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 100.00This book is a significant gathering of ideas on the subject of modern Chinese literature and culture of the past several years. The essays represent a wide spectrum of new approaches and new areas of subject matter that are changing the landscape of knowledge of modern and contemporary Chinese culture: women's literature, theatre (performance), film,... more...
New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 95.00This book brings together fresh research from experts on contemporary Chinese poetry, built upon one of the most glorious poetic traditions of any civilization in the world yet historically neglected by scholars in English. This comprehensive volume offers readable and provocative treatments of many of the most important Chinese poets of our age. more...
Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 44.95Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and diametrically opposed categories, and instead argue that the two cultural sensibilities are... more...
Die chinesische Dichtkunst. Von den Anfängen bis zum Ende der Kaiserzeit
De Gruyter 2002; US$ 224.00Volume 1 focuses on Chinese poetry. Reaching back into the first millennium before Christ, it ranks among the greatest achievements of human intellect and has made an impact in all other cultures. Especially to be noted are the Buch der Lieder (Book of Songs), Lieder des Südens (Songs of the South), the classical poetry... more...
Reading China
BRILL 2006; US$ 151.00Demonstrates how a modern reader brings us closer to understanding how Chinese citizens perceived their world and what their writings reveal about the culture that produced them. This book presents eight studies that develop a different style of reading Chinese sources, by exploring the dynamics of discourse across open boundaries. more...









