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ANTHOLOGY OF CHINESE LITERATURE - from the 14th Century to the Present Day
by Birch, Cyril (editor)
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394177665
- ISBN 13
- 9780394177663
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press - Evergreen Pilot Books, 1972. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo. (xxxi) 476 pp. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with very minor creasing on the spine; previous owner's name inside and some darkening around the edges of the text block. The Chapters are: Yuan Dynasty 1280 - 1367: Songs of the Yuan Dynasty. Ming Dynasty 1368 - 1644: Ghosts and Other Marvels; A Poet of the Early Ming: Kao Ch'i; A Hillarious Buddhist Allegory: Wu Ch'eng-en: The Temptation of Saint Pigsy; A Masterpiece of Ming Drama: T'ang Hsien-tsu - excerpt from Peony Pavilion; Early Ch'ing Lyrics; On the Art of Living; More Ghosts and Fantasies. A Poet of the Ch'ien-Lung Period: Yuan Mei. Red Chamber Dream: Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in: How to be Rid of a Rival. The New Art of Autobiography: Shen Fu; Shen Ts'ung-wen. Late Ch'ing Lyrics: Chiang Shih-ch'uan; Tso Fu; Chiang Ch'un-lin; Wang P'eng'yun; Huang Hsing; Mao Tse-tung. Republican Period 1911 - The Modern Short Story; The New Verse; Spoken Drama on a Historical Theme; The Creation of a People's Literature; A Novelist in Exile: Eileen Chang: The Bethothal of Yindi; and New Poets of Taiwan; followed by a short bibliography..
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- Bookseller
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 229183
- Title
- ANTHOLOGY OF CHINESE LITERATURE - from the 14th Century to the Present Day
- Author
- Birch, Cyril (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Later Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0394177665
- ISBN 13
- 9780394177663
- Publisher
- Grove Press - Evergreen Pilot Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- asia; china; writing; art; poetry; asian; literary; small press;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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