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Price: $100.00
Pages: 1376
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
Publication Date:
23 May 1996
Trim Size: 6.00 X 9.20 in
ISBN: 9780231074292
Format: Paperback
Innovative, talented, lively, and splendidly readable.
Victor H. Mair is professor of Chinese languages and literature in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his many publications are Tun-huang Popular Narratives; Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis; T'ang Transformation Texts: A Study of the Buddhist Contribution to the Rise of Vernacular Fiction and Drama in China; Tao Te Ching: The Chinese Book of Integrity and the Way; and (with J. P. Mallory) The Tarim Mummies.
Introduction: The Origins and Impact of Literati Culture
Map of China
Abbreviations
Prolegomenon
Preface
Acknowledgements
Romanization Conversion Chart from Wade-Giles to Pinyin
Foundations
Poetry
Prose
Fiction
Drama
Commentary, Criticism, and Interpretation
Popular and Peripheral Manifestations
Chart of the Chinese Dynasties
Romanization Conversion Chart from Wade-Giles to Pinyin
Glossary
Contributors
Index