TY - BOOK ID - 5327342 TI - C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature PY - 2004 VL - 1 SN - 0231503474 0231129904 9780231503471 9780231129909 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Chinese fiction - History and criticism. KW - Chinese fiction KW - Languages & Literatures KW - East Asian Languages & Literatures KW - History and criticism KW - History and criticism. KW - S16/0150 KW - S16/0300 KW - S16/0190 KW - S16/0400 KW - S16/0420 KW - -Chinese literature KW - China: Literature and theatrical art--General works KW - China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional theatre: studies KW - China: Literature and theatrical art--Literary criticism KW - China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional novels: studies KW - China: Literature and theatrical art--Modern novels: studies KW - Chinese literature KW - LitteĢrature chinoise KW - Roman chinois KW - Histoire et critique UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5327342 AB - Best 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. ER -