Anthology of Chinese Literature: Volume I
Subtitle: From Early Times to the Fourteenth Century (Anthology of Chinese Literature)
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: January 10, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780802150387
Subjects: Fiction anthologies & collections; Translations into English; Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors); Chinese literature; China; Literary collections
First sentence: As Japanese literature begins with the Man'yoshu, so does Chinese literature, a millennium earlier, begin with a great collection of songs, hymns and ballads: the Book of Songs (Shih ching) was compiled at some time after 600 B.C., traditionally by Confucius himself.