EAN: 9781837930210

GREAT BOOKS OF CHINA - FRANCES WOOD TASCHENBUCH

Discover - or rediscover - the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. Great
Books of China offers concise introductions - each of them accompanied by generous quotation
(in English) from the book in question - to sixty-six works in the canon of Chinese literature.
The books chosen reflect the chronological and thematic breadth of Chinese literary tradition 
ranging from such classics as The Book of Songs and the Confucian Analects  through popular
dramas and novels (The Romance of the Western Chamber  The Water Margin)  twentieth-century
political and biographical works (Quotations from Chairman Mao  the autobiography of the last
emperor) and modern novels that are little known in the West (Memories of South Peking  Six
Chapters from a Cadre School Life). Frances Wood presents a comprehensive  accessible and
richly informative primer for the uninitiated  a box of delights that opens up an entire
literary culture to the inquisitive reader.

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