Reviews for A Guide to Chinese Literature

The average rating for A Guide to Chinese Literature based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-03-05 00:00:00 Mark Flavin A clearly written overview of Chinese literature with a reasonable amount of detail but not so much you get lost in it. Includes a fifty page bibliography of works in English, translations and studies, organized by chapter and topic. The last chapter covers modern literature 1942-1990 in mainland China and Taiwan (the book was published in English in 1997) and is the one chapter that readers will almost certainly want to supplement with more recent and more detailed studies.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-02-13 00:00:00 ray arroyo Idema is a well-renowned scholar of Chinese literature, and with his fellow author Haft, presents a detailed and comprehensive overview of the state of Chinese literature, from the pre-Qin era to the modern day, including works written in Taiwan. After an introductory section discussing the concept of literature and other features of traditional Chinese society crucial to understanding its writings, the second part is broken into five major time periods and discusses the key literature found therein.