C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature / / C. T. Hsia.

Best known for the groundbreaking works A History of Modern Chinese Fiction (1961) and The Classic Chinese Novel (1968), C. T. Hsia has gathered sixteen essays and studies written during his Columbia years as a professor of Chinese literature. Wider in range and scope, C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literatu...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2004]
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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (544 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. CHINESE LITERATURE IN PERSPECTIVE
  • Classical Chinese Literature
  • Chinese Novels and American Critics
  • On the "Scientific" Study of Modern Chinese Literature
  • Part II. TRADITIONAL DRAMA
  • An Introduction to The Romance of the Western Chamber
  • Time and the Human Condition in the Plays of T'ang Hsien-tsu
  • Part III. TRADITIONAL AND EARLY MODERN FICTION
  • The Military Romance
  • Archetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber
  • The Scholar-Novelist and Chinese Culture
  • Yen Fu and Liang Ch'i-ch'ao as Advocates of New Fiction
  • The Travels of Lao Ts'an
  • Hsü Chen-ya's Yü-li hun
  • Part IV. MODERN FICTION
  • Introduction to Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949
  • The Korchin Banner Plains
  • Residual Femininity
  • Foreword to Chinese Stories from Taiwan: 1960-1970
  • Black Tears
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Index