Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction

by Sabina Knight

Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of Chinese literature from antiquity to the present, focusing on the key role literary culture played in supporting social and political concerns. Embracing traditional Chinese understandings of literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019539206X
• ISBN13: 9780195392067
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.3" x 6.7"