About The Book
"Great Books of China offers concise introductions-each of them accompanied bygenerous quotation (in English) from the book in question-to sixty-six worksin the canon of Chinese literature. The books chosen reflect the chronologicaland thematic breadth of Chinese literary tradition, ranging from such classicsas The Book of Songs and the Confucian Analects, through popular dramas andnovels (The Romance of the Western Chamber; The Water Margin), twentieth-century political and biographical works (Quotations from Chairman Mao, theautobiography of the last emperor) and modern novels that are little known inthe West (Memories of South Peking, Six Chapters from a Cadre School Life).
Frances Wood presents a comprehensive, accessible and richly informativeprimer for the uninitiated; a box of delights that opens up an entire literaryculture to the inquisitive reader."
About The Author
"Frances Wood is a distinguished Sinologue and historian of China. She wascurator of Chinese collections at the British Library until 2013."
About The Book"Great Books of China offers concise introductions-each of them accompanied bygenerous quotation (in English) from the book in question-to sixty-six worksin the canon of Chinese literature. The books chosen reflect the chronologicaland thematic breadth of Chinese literary tradition, ranging from such classicsas The Book of Songs and the Confucian Analects, through popular dramas andnovels (The Romance of the Western Chamber; The Water Margin), twentieth-century political and biographical works (Quotations from Chairman Mao, theautobiography of the last emperor) and modern novels that are little known inthe West (Memories of South Peking, Six Chapters from a Cadre School Life).Frances Wood presents a comprehensive, accessible and richly informativeprimer for the uninitiated; a box of delights that opens up an entire literaryculture to the inquisitive reader."About The Author"Frances Wood is a distinguished Sinologue and historian of China. She wascurator of Chinese collections at the British Library until 2013."