The Columbia History of Chinese Literature

by Mair, Victor H.

• ISBN13: 9780231109840
• ISBN10: 0231109849
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

The Columbia History of Chinese Literatureis a comprehensive yet portable guide to China's vast literary traditions. Stretching from earliest times to the present, the text features original contributions by leading specialists working in all genres and periods. Chapters cover poetry, prose, fiction, and drama, and consider such contextual subjects as popular culture, the impact of religion, the role of women, and China's relationship with non-Sinitic languages and peoples. Opening with a major section on the linguistic and intellectual foundations of Chinese literature, the anthology traces the development of forms and movements over time, along with critical trends, and pays particular attention to the premodern canon.

Author Biography

Victor H. Mair is professor of Chinese languages and literature in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

Table of Contents

Prolegomenon	xi
Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xix
Abbreviations	xxi
Map of China	xxii
Introduction: The Origins and Impact of Literati Culture	1	(18)
I. FOUNDATIONS
Language and Script	19	(39)
Victor H. Mair
Myth	58	(12)
Anne Birrell
Philosophy and Literature in Early China	70	(16)
Michael Puett
The Thirteen Classics	86	(11)
Paul Rakita Goldin
Shih-ching Poetry and Didacticism in Ancien Chinese Literature	97	(13)
Jeffrey Riegel
The Supernatural	110	(22)
Rania Huntington
Wit and Humor	132	(17)
Karin Myhre
Proverbs	149	(11)
John S. Rohsenow
Buddhist Literature	160	(13)
Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer
Victor H. Mair
Taoist Heritage	173	(21)
Judith Magee Boltz
Women in Literature	194	(29)
Anne Birrell
II. POETRY
Sao, Fu, Parallel Prose, and Related Genres	223	(25)
Christopher Leigh Connery
Poetry from 200 B. C. E. to 600 C. E.	248	(26)
Robert Joe Cutter
Poetry of the T'ang Dynasty	274	(40)
Paul W. Kroll
Tz'u	314	(23)
Stuart Sargent
Sung Dynasty Shih Poetry	337	(33)
Michael A. Fuller
Yuan San-ch'u	370	(13)
Wayne Schlepp
Mongol-Yuan Classical Verse (Shih)	383	(7)
Richard John Lynn
Poetry of the Fourteenth Century	390	(9)
John Timothy Wixted
Poetry of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries	399	(11)
Daniel Bryant
Poetry of the Seventeenth Century	410	(19)
Richard John Lynn
Poetry of the Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries	429	(15)
Daniel Bryant
Ch'ing Lyric	444	(9)
David Mccraw
Modern Poetry	453	(13)
Michelle Yeh
Poetry and Painting	466	(27)
Charles Hartman
III. PROSE
The Literary Features of Historical Writing	493	(18)
Stephen Durrant
Early Biography	511	(16)
William H. Nienhauser, Jr.
Expository Prose	527	(15)
Ronald Egan
Records of Anomalies	542	(13)
Hu Ying
Travel Literature	555	(5)
James M. Hargett
Sketches	560	(6)
James M. Hargett
Twentieth-Century Prose	566	(13)
Philip F. C. Williams
IV. FICTION
T'ang Tales	579	(16)
William H. Nienhauser, Jr.
Vernacular Stories	595	(25)
Yenna Wu
Full-Length Vernacular Fiction	620	(39)
Wai-Yee Li
Traditional Vernacular Novels: Some Lesser-Known Works	659	(16)
Daria Berg
The Later Classical Tale	675	(22)
Allan H. Barr
Fiction from the End of the Empire to the Beginning of the Republic (1897-1916)	697	(35)
Milena Dolezelova-Velingerova
Twentieth-Century Fiction	732	(26)
Philip F. C. Williams
China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan During the 1980s and 1990s	758	(27)
Helmut Martin
V. DRAMA
Traditional Dramatic Literature	785	(63)
Wilt L. Idema
Twentieth-Century Spoken Drama	848	(33)
Xiaomet Chen
VI. COMMENTARY, CRITICISM, AND INTERPRETATION
The Rhetoric of Premodern Prose Style	881	(28)
Christoph Harbsmeier
Classical Exegesis	909	(7)
Haun Saussy
Literary Theory and Criticism	916	(24)
Dore J. Levy
Traditional Fiction Commentary	940	(13)
David L. Rolston
VII. POPULAR AND PERIPHERAL MANIFESTATIONS
Balladry and Popular Song	953	(11)
Anne Birrell
Tun-huang Literature	964	(25)
Neil Schmid
The Oral-Formulaic Tradition	989	(26)
Anne E. Mclaren
Regional Literatures	1015	(17)
Mark Bender
Ethnic Minority Literature	1032	(23)
Mark Bender
The Translator's Turn: The Birth of Modern Chinese Language and Fiction	1055	(12)
Lydia H. Liu
The Reception of Chinese Literature in Korea	1067	(12)
Emanuel Pastreich
The Reception of Chinese Literature in Japan	1079	(17)
Emanuel Pastreich
The Reception of Chinese Literature in Vietnam	1096	(9)
Emanuel Pastreich
Suggestions for Further Reading	1105	(48)
Principal Chinese Dynasties and Periods	1153	(2)
Romanization Schemes for Modern Standard Mandarin	1155	(6)
Glossary of Terms	1161	(18)
Glossary of Names	1179	(34)
Glossary of Titles	1213	(28)
Index	1241	(94)
Contributors	1335