Author:
Zhongguo wen mai. English.
Imprint:New York : CN Times Books, c2015.
Description447 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Includes index.
Note:The canon -- Inking history -- Imagining the Yellow Emperor -- The experience of myth -- Discovering the ruins of Yin -- Laozi and Confucius -- Black light -- The Academy at Ji Gate -- The first poet -- On encountering trouble : a modern reading -- The wellspring of history -- The family on the edge of the forest -- The songs that ended in the Wei and Jin -- In the garden far away -- The road to the Tang -- Buddhism -- Chang'an, the greatest city on earth -- Men of the Tang -- Buried treasure -- The outsider -- Rupture -- The 600-year slump -- Writers in the ghostlight -- A world of weasels
Note:"In The Chinese Literary Canon, one of Chinas most brilliant critics puts three millennia of Chinese writing in its proper historical context. He shows us what to read and how to read it. Yu Qiuyu traces a bright line of the very best literature that China has produced: from the first carvings on bone, through the first poems, the first philosophers, the greatest historian, to the ultimate stylists of the Tang Dynasty and beyond. And because brilliant literature is always a product of its time and place, Yu tells us about the men who did the writing and the worlds in which they lived. Most of all, Yu tells us about the ideas that motivated them, how they read the writers of the past, and how each writer of genius transformed and added his own stamp to the literary canon."--Publisher's web site
