Title: Chinese literature, a historical introduction.
Authors: Chʻen, Shou-yi, 1899-1977
Publisher: Ronald Press
Year: 1961
Subjects: Chinese literature History and criticism.
Abstract: Presented in chronological order, here is the entire range of Chinese literature, from the earliest truly historical period to the end of the Chinese Empire in 1911 and the effects of western influence in the 1920's and 1930's. Literary trends have been discussed, but space has been devoted to the lives and works of particular writers.--Adapted from preface.
Contents: The earliest records -- The book of songs -- The Confucian analects and the book of Lao-tsŭ -- The Ch'u elegies -- The Confucian classics -- Three late Chou philosophers -- Ch'in literature -- The Fu -- Han literature exclusive of the Fu -- Wei and Tsin -- Medieval literature -- The age of disunion -- The songs of the T'ang dynasty -- The dawn of Chinese fiction -- The literary reform -- T'ang popular literature -- The five dynasties -- Sung literature: classical prose -- Sung literature: traditional poetry -- The golden period of the Tz'ŭ -- Metamorphosis and decline of the Tz'ŭ -- Liao and Chin -- The rise of drama in China -- Early fiction in the vernacular -- From Hua-Pên to novel -- Ming prose and poetry -- Ming drama -- Early Ch'ing poetry -- Early Ch'ing prose -- Ch'ing fiction -- The impact of the west -- The literary revolution.