Ways with Words: Writing about Reading Texts from Early China Volume 24 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520224667)

Ways with Words presents interpretive essays by scholars from different disciplines on seven core, premodern classical Chinese texts. The remarkable diversity of these works--drawn from literature, philosophy, religion, and art history--challenges the presumption of a monolithic Chinese tradition that has been promoted by scholars and popular culture alike, both in China and the West.

The texts themselves include a poem from the Classic of Poetry compiled in the sixth century b.c.e.; passages from Mencius and Zhuangzi; the Heart Sutra; a poem by Du Fu and the Biography of Yingying by Yuan Zhen, both written during the Tang dynasty; and Notes on the Method for the Brush, a tenth-century text attributed to Jing Hao. Both the original Chinese versions and the translations are provided for each primary text. There are at least two essays--when possible from scholars in different fields--on each work. The volume as a whole demonstrates the various ways in which the modern Western reader can confront the impressive variety of texts from the classical Chinese tradition.

Author: Pauline Yu
ISBN-10: 0520224663
ISBN-13: 9780520224667
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2000
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.94w x 0.76d