The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, Vol. 1 (Japanese Edition)
With this volume, Nienhauser (Univ. of Wisconsin) updates and supplementsthe first volume of Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature (CH, Jul'87). The supplement portion of this latest Companion includes more than 60informative entries on major writers, works, and genres not included in the firstvolume. Prominent examples include Ch'in Kuan, 1049 -- 1100, Chuang Tzu, andchildren's literature (er -- t'ung wen -- hs eh (wen -- hsueh) ). In general, theseand other entries are a bit longer and more detailed than those in the firstCompanion. The update portion appears in the form of a bibliography, running almost300 pages in length, which provides supplementary bibliographical references (mostlyin English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and German, covering 1984 through 1996) tothe more than 500 entries that make up the 1986 bibliography. A veritable feast ofconcise, useful, reliable, and up -- to -- date information (all prepared by topscholars in the field), Nienhauser's now tw