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Ways with Words: Writing about Reading Texts from Early China: Volume 24
Edited by Pauline Yu, Edited by Peter Bol, Edited by Stephen Owen, Edited by Willard Peterson
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""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"" compiled in the sixth century b.c.e.; passages from ""Mencius and Zhuangzi""; the ""Heart Sutra""; a poem by Du Fu and the ""Biography of Yingying"" by Yuan Zhen, both written during the Tang dynasty; and ""Notes on the Method for the Brush"", a tenth-century text attributed to Jing Hao.Both the original Chinese versions and the translations are provided for each primary text. There are at least two essays - when possible from scholars in different fields - on each work. The volume as a whole demonstrates the various ways in which the modern Western reader can confront the impressive variety of texts from the classical Chinese tradition.
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Publisher | University of California Press
Published date | 19 Sep 2000
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 292
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 499g
ISBN | 978-0-5202-2466-7
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BISAC | history / world
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