Anthology of Chinese Literature: Volume II
Subtitle: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present Day (Anthology of Chinese Literature)
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: January 10, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780802150905
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Chinese literature; Literary collections; Translations into English; Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors); China; Collections
First sentence: "In the centuries preceding the Mongol conquest the preferred forms for Chinese verse were the metrically regular shih and the lyric (tz'u), whose lines were of irregular but prescribed length."