ISBN-10: 7-5085-0979-X, 750850979X
ISBN-13: 978-7-5085-0979-2, 9787508509792
Author: Yao Dan
Translation: Li Ziliang, Li Guoqing, Zhao Feifei
Pages: 157
Shipping Weight: 380g
Format: Softcover
Language: English
Size: 170mm x 231mm
Year of Publication: 2006
This book introduces the Chinese literature beginning from The Book of Songs (about 1000 B.C.) to the great work A Dream of Red Mansion of the Qing Dynasty, covering the most important writers and their works in various types of literature such as poetry, prose and fiction. With color pictures.
Contents:
Foreword / 1
The Book of Songs / 5
"Folk Songs of 15 Regions" ("Guofeng") / 7
The Epic of the Western Zhou People / 9
Prose Writings of Various Schools of Thought during the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Period / 13
Tao Te Ching / 15
The Analects / 19
Mencius / 23
Zhuangzi / 26
Qu Yuan and the Elegies of the State of Chu / 31
Qu Yuan / 32
The Lament on Encountering Sorrows / 34
Elegies of the State of Chu / 36
Records of the Historian—"The First and Last Great Work by Historians, Li Sad without Rhyme" / 41
Pre-Qin Historical Books / 42
About Records of the Historian / 44
The Characterization in Records of the Historian / 46
History and Literature / 50
Literature in the Wei and Jin Period and Tad Yuanming / 53
Li Bai—A Romantic Genius Poet / 61
Du Fu—A Compassionate Sage Poet / 73
"Li and Du the Junior"—Late Tang Poems in the Sad, Plaintive and Beautiful Style / 83
Li Shangyin / 84
Du Mu / 88
Ci Poetry—Poems That Can Be Sung / 93
Su Shi / 97
Li Qingzhao / 102
Xin Qiji / 106
Two Outstanding Playwrights of the Yuan Opera / 111
Guan Hanqing / 112
Wang Shifu / 116
Brief Outline of Chinese Classical Fictions / 121
Early Classical Fictions in Chapter-titled Style: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Outlaws of the Marsh and Journey to the West / 127
Romance of the Three Kingdoms / 129
Outlaws of the Marsh / 132
Journey to the West/135
Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio—Pinnacle of Classical Chinese Fiction / 139
A Dream of Red Mansions / 145
Appendix: A Brief Chronology of China / 157