C. T. Hsia (1921–2013) is professor emeritus of Chinese at Columbia University. His books include The Classic Chinese Novel and A History of Modern Chinese Fiction. He is also the coeditor, with Joseph S. M. Lau and Leo O. Lee, of Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919–1949.Wai-Yee Li is professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University. She is the author of Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature; The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography; and Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature. She is also the translator, with Stephen Durrant and David Schaberg, of Zuozhuan.George Kao (1912–2008) was a Chinese American author, translator, and journalist who served as director of the West Coast office of China”s Government Information Office and as editor in chief of the Chinese Press.
9 Ebooks oleh Wai-Yee Li
C. T. Hsia & George Kao: The Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama
This anthology features translations of ten seminal plays written during the Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), a period considered the golden age of Chinese theater. By turns lyrical and earthy, sentimental …
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Stephen Durrant & Wai-yee Li: The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy
Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), is China’s earliest and best-known historian, and his “Letter to Ren An” is the most famous letter in Chinese history. In …
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Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan左傳
Winner of the Patrick D. Hanan Book Prize for Translation (China and Inner Asia), sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan; sometimes called The Zuo Commentary) is China …
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Wai-yee Li: Enchantment and Disenchantment
In a famous episode of the eighteenth-century masterpiece The Dream of the Red Chamber, the goddess Disenchantment introduces the hero, Pao-yü, to the splendors and dangers of the Illusory Realm of G …
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Wiebke Denecke & Wai-Yee Li: Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature
This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century CE. It asks basic questions such as: How did reading and writing practic …
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Xiang Mao & Huai Yu: Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge
Amid the turmoil of the Ming-Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China, some intellectuals sought refuge in romantic memories from what they perceived as cataclysmic events. This volume p …
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The Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan Reader
Essential passages from a classic Chinese history, organized topically, introduced, and annotated Zuo Tradition, China’s first great work of history, was completed by about 300 BCE and recounts event …
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Wai-yee Li: The Promise and Peril of Things
Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Our relationship with things abounds with paradoxes. People assign value to objects in ways that are often deeply personal or idiosyncratic yet at the s …
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Wilt Idema & Wai-yee Li: A Topsy-Turvy World
Playwriting in many forms flourished during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Shorter theatrical genres in particular offered playwrights opportunities for experimentation with both dramatic fo …
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