The shorter Columbia anthology of traditional Chinese literature
By: Victor H. Mair, editor
Contributors: Mair, Victor H., 1943-
Series: Translations from the Asian classics
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 741
Subjects: Chinese literature -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English
Other titles: Columbia anthology of traditional Chinese literature
Description: "Admirers of the monumental two-volume original edition of Victor H. Mair's Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature have long clamored for a shorter, more affordable version. In response, Columbia University Press now offers an abridged volume, which, like the original, includes selections of Chinese literature from the beginnings to 1919.

This shorter anthology retains the characteristics of the original in that it is arranged according to genre rather than chronology and interprets "literature" very broadly to include not just literary fiction, poetry, and drama, but folk and popular literature, lyrics and arias, elegies and rhapsodies, biographies, autobiographies and memoirs, letters, criticism and theory, and travelogues and jokes. It also contains fresh translations by newer voices in the field."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ([p. xxvii]-xxviii)