LEADER 04419nam 22006134a 450 001 9910777007703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-50347-4 024 7 $a10.7312/hsia12990 035 $a(CKB)1000000000445324 035 $a(EBL)909056 035 $a(OCoLC)818856564 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000116596 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11139284 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000116596 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10035108 035 $a(PQKB)10028022 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909056 035 $a(DE-B1597)458953 035 $a(OCoLC)213305050 035 $a(OCoLC)979879821 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231503471 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909056 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183462 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL853877 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000445324 100 $a20030129d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aC.T. Hsia on Chinese literature$b[electronic resource] /$fC.T. Hsia 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (1040 p.) 225 1 $aMasters of Chinese studies ;$vv. 1 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-12990-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tPart I. CHINESE LITERATURE IN PERSPECTIVE --$tClassical Chinese Literature --$tChinese Novels and American Critics --$tOn the "Scientific" Study of Modern Chinese Literature --$tPart II. TRADITIONAL DRAMA --$tAn Introduction to The Romance of the Western Chamber --$tTime and the Human Condition in the Plays of T'ang Hsien-tsu --$tPart III. TRADITIONAL AND EARLY MODERN FICTION --$tThe Military Romance --$tArchetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber --$tThe Scholar-Novelist and Chinese Culture --$tYen Fu and Liang Ch'i-ch'ao as Advocates of New Fiction --$tThe Travels of Lao Ts'an --$tHsü Chen-ya's Yü-li hun --$tPart IV. MODERN FICTION --$tIntroduction to Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949 --$tThe Korchin Banner Plains --$tResidual Femininity --$tForeword to Chinese Stories from Taiwan: 1960-1970 --$tBlack Tears --$tNotes --$tGlossary --$tIndex 330 $aBest known for the groundbreaking works A History of Modern Chinese Fiction (1961) and The Classic Chinese Novel (1968), C. T. Hsia has gathered sixteen essays and studies written during his Columbia years as a professor of Chinese literature. Wider in range and scope, C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature stands beside his two earlier books as part of his critical legacy to all readers seriously interested in the subject. C. T. Hsia's writings on Chinese literature express a candor rare among his Western colleagues. Thus the first section of the book contains three essays that place Chinese literature in critical perspective, examining its substance and significance and questioning some of the critical approaches and methods adopted by Western sinologists for its study and appreciation. The second section has two essays on traditional drama-one on the Yuan masterpiece The Romance of the Western Chamber and the other a sophisticated study of the plays of the foremost Ming dramatist T'ang Hsien-tsu. The third section is the richest and longest of the book, containing six essays on traditional and early modern fiction. At least four of these-on "The Military Romance" and the novels Flowers in the Mirror, The Travels of Lao Ts'an, and Jade Pear Spirit-are among the author's finest works. Finally, the fourth section of the book, covering modern fiction, includes one essay on the novel The Korchin Banner Plains, an essay on women in Chinese communist fiction, and three concise yet illuminating studies of the short story during the three republican decades before Mao, the first dozen years under Mao, and in Taiwan during the 1960's. 410 0$aMasters of Chinese studies ;$vv. 1. 517 3 $aChinese literature 606 $aChinese fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aChinese fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a895.1/3009 700 $aHsia$b Chih-tsing$f1921-$0704016 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777007703321 996 $aC.T. Hsia on Chinese literature$93696492 997 $aUNINA