Ebook: Chinese Literature: an Anthology from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Author: McNaughton William
- Tags: Chinese literature, Literary collections, Translations, Chinese literature -- Translations into English, China -- Literary collections, China
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
- City: New York;China
- Language: English
- epub
Almost three thousand years of Chinese literature have been gathered together in Chinese Literature: An Anthology from the. Earliest Times to the Present Day. The earliest preserved folk songs of the peasantry; the major works of the "Golden Age" of Chinese philosophy; the "prose-songs" and the later skillful poems of the T'ang dynasty ; the short stories and plays; the novels ; andthe poems and stories of men who have made modern China - all these are represented in this anthology, in complete works or in excerpts.;Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction ; Historical hart of Chinese Literature; PART ONE: THE FOUNDATIONS; 2. THe Book of Songs; 3. Not Giving Up On It: the Philosophy of Confucius; 4. Lao-Tzu and Chuang-Tzu: Taoism ; 5. Ecstasy Cults and Elegies; 6. Mr. Left's History and Policies of War; PART TWO: HAN AND THE SIX DYNASTIES; 7. Prose-Songs; 8. Country Music ; 9. The Poetry of Exile; 10. Nature Poetry ; 11. Erotic Poetry ; PART THREE: T'ANG, FIVE DYNASTIES, AND SUNG ; 12. Strange Legends of T'Ang ; 13. The Golden Poets: Wang Wei, Li Po, and Tu Fu.
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