Readings in Classical Chinese Poetry and Prose: Glossaries, Analyses

by Hai-tao Tang, Naiying Yuan, James Geiss

Book Overview

This supplemental volume continues the rigorous standard set forth in the main, three-volume Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader while reinforcing its linguistic lessons from carefully chosen representative works. Comprised of three parts--"Poetry," "Lyrics," and "Prose"--it presents texts, chronologically, that represent the artistic embodiment of China's Confucian and Taoist thought. Two introductions separately describe the structural and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691118329
• ISBN13: 9780691118321
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"