Written on Water (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: March 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780231131391
Subjects: Asian - Chinese; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: IT USED TO BE that when people celebrated Chinese New Year, they would paste red strips of paper on the wall with maxims like "Things are Looking Up" and "From the Mouths of Babes" written across them.