The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, Volume 1Kang-i Sun Chang, Stephen Owen The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature gives an account of 3,000 years of Chinese literature, accessible to non-specialist readers as well as scholars and students of Chinese. From the beginnings of the Chinese written language to the lively world of internet literature, these two volumes tell the story of Chinese writing, both as an instrument of the state and as a medium for culture outside the state. These volumes treat not only poetry, drama, and fiction, but early works of history and the informal prose of later eras. The first volume begins with the question of the Chinese written language and the earliest inscriptions, dating from the late second millennium BC. In doing so, it traces the beginnings of one of the longest continuous literary traditions in the world. By the end of the period, there was a fully evolved commercial print culture, encompassing writing in both the older classical language and an emerging urban vernacular. The Chapters in this volume chart the rise and fall of major dynasties and the role of the court in literary production, the cultural influences of other Asian countries, including the introduction of Buddhism, and the social and material contexts of the most important authors. The contributors keep in mind the traditions that preserved classical texts as much as the conditions that originally produced them. |
Contents
Early Chinese literature beginnings through Western Han MARTIN KERN I The Chinese language and writing system | 1 |
Inscriptions on oracle bones and bronze artifacts | 7 |
The Classic of Poetry | 17 |
The Airs and the early hermeneutic traditions | 28 |
The royal speeches in the Classic of Documents | 39 |
Warring States narrative literature and rhetoric | 43 |
The question of literacy | 56 |
The Han construction of Warring States textual lineages | 60 |
catalogues encyclopedias anthologies | 253 |
The cultural construction of the north and south | 266 |
The cultural Tang 6501020 | 286 |
The age of Empress Wu 650712 | 293 |
the High Tang 712755 | 304 |
After the rebellion 756791 | 320 |
The Northern Song 10201126 | 381 |
Chinese literature from 1841 to 1937 | 413 |
The texts of Warring States philosophical and political discourse | 66 |
The Verses of Chu | 76 |
The poetry of the early empire | 86 |
Western Han historical and anecdotal narrative | 99 |
Qin and Western Han political and philosophical discourses | 107 |
The status of the Classics | 111 |
107 | 128 |
The Jianan period | 166 |
The Zhengshi period | 176 |
Western Jin literature | 182 |
From the Eastern Jin through the early Tang 317649 | 199 |
poetry and prose | 213 |
Literature of the Sixteen Kingdoms | 222 |
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries | 465 |
the convergence of aesthetic and philosophical issues in Yang Wanli | 482 |
groups and clubs and the impact | 498 |
the historical and cultural contexts | 511 |
Professionalism and the craft of song SHUENFU LIN | 520 |
The pleasures of the city SHUENFU LIN | 533 |
The fall of the Southern Song SHUENFU LIN | 542 |
ca 1230ca 1375 | 557 |
Northern writing to 1300 | 565 |
A note on the fu | 613 |
a new form of hybrid poetry | 633 |
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