- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Harvard University Press (1 July 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0674125258
- ISBN-13: 978-0674125254
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.4 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,410,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Feel the Scholarly Passion and Precision...
14 Oct 2000
Format:Hardcover
Every student of Chinese fiction, or rather, Chinese literature, should own this book. I started out using a copy in the library, but this is really something that you would want to own after reading.
This great work by Patrick Hanan focuses on the genre of the Chinese short story, and attempts to break through an impasse in literary scholarship¡ª providing inspiring insights into the dating, authorship and composition of the Chinese short story. Using stylistic criteria with extreme care, he studies 149 extant and accessible short stories, dividing into three periods: Early (ca.1250-1450), Middle (ca. 1400-1575) and Late (ca. 1550-1627). This is an important breakthrough in the scholarship of this genre, as it is only after this work that we can have a clearer idea of how to place the individual story in history.
This book provides all the essential information and argument and prepares a reader to enter his another great work, THE CHINESE VERNACULAR STORY published seven years later. I will recommend this book even to people outside the study of Chinese literature. Hanan¡¯s scholarly passion and cautious attitude in research is best presented in this work, and it will benefit any serious reader.
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