An Anthology of Chinese Literature (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen Owen
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Literary anthology
- Genres: Long fiction, Anthology
- Subjects: Language or languages, Literature, Education or educators, Poetry or poets, Writing, China or Chinese people, Buddhism, Confucianism
To the general reader, this mammoth undertaking may seem a bit daunting at first sight, but only until the first few pages introduce the voice of the editor and translator, Stephen Owen, a professor of Chinese and comparative literature at Harvard University. A gifted teacher, he makes it a positive pleasure to follow him through the hundreds of years of Chinese literature, over the seemingly unending succession of wars, changes of dynasties, and social turmoil from which the literature was born and against which it survived.
To cover so much in just one book inevitably entails...
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