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Ways with Words - Writing about Reading Texts from Early China (Paperback) Loot Price: R792
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Ways with Words - Writing about Reading Texts from Early China (Paperback): Pauline Yu, Peter Bol, Stephen Owen, Willard...

Ways with Words - Writing about Reading Texts from Early China (Paperback)

Pauline Yu, Peter Bol, Stephen Owen, Willard Peterson

Series: Studies on China, 24

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"Ways with Words" presents interpretive essays by scholars from different disciplines on seven core, premodern classical Chinese texts. The remarkable diversity of these works--drawn from literature, philosophy, religion, and art history--challenges the presumption of a monolithic Chinese tradition that has been promoted by scholars and popular culture alike, both in China and the West.


The texts themselves include a poem from the "Classic of Poetry" compiled in the sixth century b.c.e.; passages from "Mencius" and "Zhuangzi"; the "Heart Sutra"; a poem by Du Fu and the "Biography of Yingying" by Yuan Zhen, both written during the Tang dynasty; and "Notes on the Method for the Brush," a tenth-century text attributed to Jing Hao. Both the original Chinese versions and the translations are provided for each primary text. There are at least two essays--when possible from scholars in different fields--on each work. The volume as a whole demonstrates the various ways in which the modern Western reader can confront the impressive variety of texts from the classical Chinese tradition.

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Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Studies on China, 24
Release date: September 2000
First published: September 2000
Editors: Pauline Yu • Peter Bol • Stephen Owen • Willard Peterson
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22466-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > General
Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > World history > General
LSN: 0-520-22466-3
Barcode: 9780520224667

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