Ways with Words: Writing about Reading Texts from Early China Volume 24

Bys: Pauline Yu, Peter Bol, Stephen Owen, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520224663
• ISBN13: 9780520224667
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 8.9"