Limited views
Subtitle: essays on ideas and letters = [Kuan chui pien]
By: by Qian Zhongshu ; selected and translated by Ronald Egan.
Contributors: Egan, Ronald C., 1948-
Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;; 44
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
Subjects: Chinese classics -- History and criticism
Other titles: Kuan chui pien
Description: This translation of 65 pieces from Qian Zhongshu's Guanzhui bian (Limited Views) makes available for the first time in English a representative selection from Qian's massive four-volume collection of essays and reading notes on the classics of early Chinese literature. Qian Zhongshu (b.1910) is arguably contemporary China's foremost man of letters, and Limited Views is recognized as the culmination of his study of literature in both the Chinese and the Western traditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-462) and index.
Parallel title in Chinese characters.