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SUNY Series in Asian Studies Development SUNY Series in Asian Studies Development
Chinese Aesthetics and Literature: A Reader Chinese Aesthetics and Literature: A Reader
Format
paper
Pages
xxii, 247
ISBN
0-7914-6022-3

This comprehensive introduction to Chinese aesthetics and literature includes the major modern genres of poetry, fiction, and drama. Featuring the work of renowned scholars in Chinese studies, the book provides an historical survey of Chinese literature and explains its philosophical and historical underpinnings in Daoist, Buddhist, and Confucian thought. The traditions of lyric poetry, fiction, and theater are presented as cultural practices. Modern responses to the political and social crises of twentieth-century China and on the avant-garde experimental literature of twenty-first century China are also examined.

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This comprehensive introduction to Chinese aesthetics and literature includes the major modern genres of poetry, fiction, and drama. Featuring the work of renowned scholars in Chinese studies, the book provides an historical survey of Chinese literature and explains its philosophical and historical underpinnings in Daoist, Buddhist, and Confucian thought. The traditions of lyric poetry, fiction, and theater are presented as cultural practices. Modern responses to the political and social crises of twentieth-century China and on the avant-garde experimental literature of twenty-first century China are also examined.

© State University of New York


Related Projects
Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP)

 

Hard copies may be purchased from the State University of New York Press.
 

Additional titles in the SUNY Series in Asian Studies Development