The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
Innovative, talented, lively, and splendidly readable.(Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society)The list of translators reads like a Who's Who of Western Sinology. This is a book one can open at any page and immediately be drawn in by its great and appealing content. It is at once a reference book, with examples drawn from the huge corpus of Chinese literature, and a book which guarantees superb reading pleasure.(New Asia Review)A lifetime spent reading Chinese literature has produced this enormous, enthralling, canon-exploding book.... Often, the funniest and liveliest entries are translated by the editor himself, who has an uncanny ability to capture puns and rhymes even in English translation.... [W]onderful.(Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie)