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Fortress Besieged

By: Zhongshu Qian

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A classic of Chinese literature, this magnificent litany of mishaps begins on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, when Fang Hung-chien, with no particular goal in life and a bogus degree from a fake university in hand, returns home to Shanghai, meeting two Chinese beauties, Miss Su and Miss Pao, on the way. Fang eventually obtains a teaching post at a newly established university in the interior, where he encounters effete pseudo-intellectuals. Soon he falls into a marriage of Nabokovian proportions of distress and absurdity.

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420

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New Directions Publishing

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ISBN 10

0811215520

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9780811215527

Limited Views

Essays on Ideas and Letters

By: Zhongshu Qian

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Limited Views

Essays on Ideas and Letters

By: Zhongshu Qian

This translation of 65 pieces from Qian Zhongshu's Guanzhui bian (Limited Views) makes available for the first time in English a representative selection from Qian's massive four-volume collection of essays and reading notes on the classics of early Chinese literature.

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Harvard Univ Asia Center

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0674534115

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9780674534117

Limited Views

Essays on Ideas and Letters

By: Zhongshu Qian

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Essays on Ideas and Letters

By: Zhongshu Qian

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Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts

Stories and Essays

By: Zhongshu Qian

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Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts

Stories and Essays

By: Zhongshu Qian

This book brings together the essay collection "Written in the margins of life (Xie zai ren sheng bian shang)" and the short story collection "Human, beast, ghost (Ren shou gui).

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234

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Columbia University Press

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0231152752

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9780231152754

Patchwork

Seven Essays on Art and Literature

By: Zhongshu QIAN

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Seven Essays on Art and Literature

By: Zhongshu QIAN

Patchwork: Seven Essays on Art and Literature presents in English translation a number of essays written by the Chinese literary scholar and novelist Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998). One of the great minds of the twentieth century, Qian, with his characteristic erudition and wit, addresses here aspects of the classical literary and artistic traditions of China. Better known, as a scholar, for his magisterial Limited Views: Essays on Ideas & Letters (Guanzhui bian) (1979-80) and, as a novelist, for his Fortress Besieged (Weicheng) (1947), these essays, first written during the period 1948-83 and much revised over the years, allow readers insight into Qian’s abiding concern with “striking connections” between disparate literary, historical, and intellectual traditions, ancient and modern, Chinese and Western. Dr. Duncan Campbell was awarded the China Book Award for Special Contributions at the 23rd Beijing International Book Fair. Dr. Campbell received this award for his translation of this volume.

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BRILL

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9004270213

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9789004270213

Fortress Besieged

By: Zhongshu Qian

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Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts

Stories and Essays

By: Zhongshu Qian

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Stories and Essays

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This book brings together the essay collection "Written in the margins of life (Xie zai ren sheng bian shang)" and the short story collection "Human, beast, ghost (Ren shou gui).

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Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn

By: Zhongshu Dong

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Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn

By: Zhongshu Dong

The Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu) is a chronicle kept by the dukes of the state of Lu from 722 to 481 B.C.E. Luxuriant Gems of the "Spring and Autumn" (Chunqiu fanlu) follows the interpretations of the Gongyang Commentary, whose transmitters sought to explicate the special language of the Spring and Autumn. The work is often ascribed to the Han scholar and court official Dong Zhongshu, but, as this study reveals, the text is in fact a compendium of writings by a variety of authors spanning several generations. It depicts a utopian vision of a flourishing humanity that they believed to be Confucius's legacy to the world. The Gongyang masters thought that Confucius had written the Spring and Autumn, employing subtle phrasing to indicate approval or disapproval of important events and personages. Luxuriant Gems therefore augments Confucian ethical and philosophical teachings with chapters on cosmology, statecraft, and other topics drawn from contemporary non-Confucian traditions. A major resource, this book features the first complete English-language translation of Luxuriant Gems, divided into eight thematic sections with introductions that address dating, authorship, authenticity, and the relationship between the Spring and Autumn and the Gongyang approach. Critically illuminating early Chinese philosophy, religion, literature, and politics, this book conveys the brilliance of intellectual life in the Han dynasty during the formative decades of the Chinese imperial state.

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700

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Columbia University Press

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0231539614

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9780231539616

The Besieged City

By: Zhongshu Qian

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The Besieged City

By: Zhongshu Qian

Intended for students of Chinese, this new edition (with MP3) is an abridged version of author Qian Zhongshus well-known novel detailing the lives of a group of urban intellectuals in Japanese-occupied China in the late 1930s. Each chapter, in Chinese with pinyin, presents new vocabulary, notes, exercises and questions. This is an entertaining exposure to modern Chinese literature with the added benefit of expanding your reading and listening comprehension.

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Editions de Pékin / Sinolingua

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7802003903

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9787802003903

Patchwork

Seven Essays on Art and Literature

By: Zhongshu QIAN

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Seven Essays on Art and Literature

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