C.T. Hsia on Chinese LiteratureBest known for the groundbreaking works A History of Modern Chinese Fiction (1961) and The Classic Chinese Novel (1968), C. T. Hsia has gathered sixteen essays and studies written during his Columbia years as a professor of Chinese literature. Wider in range and scope, C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature stands beside his two earlier books as part of his critical legacy to all readers seriously interested in the subject. C. T. Hsia's writings on Chinese literature express a candor rare among his Western colleagues. Thus the first section of the book contains three essays that place Chinese literature in critical perspective, examining its substance and significance and questioning some of the critical approaches and methods adopted by Western sinologists for its study and appreciation. The second section has two essays on traditional drama--one on the Yuan masterpiece The Romance of the Western Chamber and the other a sophisticated study of the plays of the foremost Ming dramatist T'ang Hsien-tsu. The third section is the richest and longest of the book, containing six essays on traditional and early modern fiction. At least four of these--on "The Military Romance" and the novels Flowers in the Mirror, The Travels of Lao Ts'an, and Jade Pear Spirit--are among the author's finest works. Finally, the fourth section of the book, covering modern fiction, includes one essay on the novel The Korchin Banner Plains, an essay on women in Chinese communist fiction, and three concise yet illuminating studies of the short story during the three republican decades before Mao, the first dozen years under Mao, and in Taiwan during the 1960s. |
Contents
6198_Hisa_02pdf | 30 |
6198_Hisa_03pdf | 50 |
6198_Hisa_04pdf | 85 |
6198_Hisa_05pdf | 102 |
6198_Hisa_06pdf | 133 |
6198_Hisa_07pdf | 171 |
6198_Hisa_08pdf | 188 |
6198_Hisa_09pdf | 223 |
6198_Hisa_11pdf | 269 |
6198_Hisa_12pdf | 311 |
6198_Hisa_13pdf | 332 |
6198_Hisa_14pdf | 376 |
6198_Hisa_15pdf | 398 |
6198_Hisa_16pdf | 414 |
Notes5pdf | 427 |
| 511 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
appears Ch’en Chang chap chapter character chen chih-chuan Chin P’ing Mei China Chinese fiction Chinese literature Chinese novels Chinese poetry Ching-hua yuan chüan Chung-kuo classical Chinese Communist Confucian critical culture death drama Dream earlier Eileen Chang Empress Wu essay father girls hero heroine Hsia Hsiao hsiao-shuo Hsü Chen-ya Hsüeh Hsün’s Hu Shih Huang human Hung-lou meng Ju-chen kind Korchin Banner Plains Lao Ts’an late Ch’ing Li-niang Lin Shu literary Liu Ê lovers Lu Hsün Meng-hsia military romance Ming modern Chinese moral Mu-tan t’ing narrative novelist Pai Hsien-yung Pao-yü Peking Peng Plaks play poems poetry poets political popular Pru˚šek reader satiric scene scholars Shanghai Sheng shu-chü Shui-hu chuan Shuo T’ang story T’ang Hsien-tsu Taipei Taiwan Taoist Ting Ning tion traditional Chinese translation Tuan-mu Wang Water Margin wen-hsüeh western western fiction wife women writers Yen Fu yen-yi Ying-ying young Yü-li Yüeh