The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature

With its fresh translations by newer voices in the field, its broad scope, and its flowing style, this anthology places the immense riches of Chinese literature within easy reach. Ranging from the beginnings to 1919, this abridged version of The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature retains all the characteristics of the original. In putting together these selections Victor H. Mair interprets "literature" very broadly to include not just literary fiction, poetry, and drama, but folk and popular literature, lyrics and arias, elegies and rhapsodies, biographies, autobiographies and memoirs, letters, criticism and theory, and travelogues and jokes.

Author: Victor Mair
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 01/03/2001
Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
Pages: 704
Weight: 2.44lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.63d
ISBN: 9780231119993