Great Books of China

Author: Frances Wood

Hardcover: 304 pages

Publisher: Head of Zeus (7 Sept. 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1786694522

ISBN-13: 978-1786694522

Product Dimensions: 14 x 2.9 x 21.5 cm

內容簡介

Great Books of China offers concise introductions – each of them accompanied by generous quotation (in English) from the book in question – to sixty-six works in the canon of Chinese literature. The books chosen reflect the chronological and thematic breadth of Chinese literary tradition, ranging from such classics as The Book of Songs and the Confucian Analects, through popular dramas and novels (The Romance of the Western Chamber; The Water Margin), twentieth-century political and biographical works (Quotations from Chairman Mao, the autobiography of the last emperor) and modern novels that are little known in the West (Memories of South Peking, Six Chapters from a Cadre School Life).

Frances Wood presents a comprehensive, accessible and richly informative primer for the uninitiated; a box of delights that opens up an entire literary culture to the inquisitive reader.

作者簡介

Frances Wood is a distinguished Sinologue and historian of China. She was curator of Chinese collections at the British Library until 2013.