In literatures worldwide, animal fables have been analyzed for their revealingly anthropomorphic views, but until now little attention has been given to the animal tales of China. The complex, competitive relationship between rodents (vilified as thieves of grain) and the felines with whom they are perennially at war is explored in this presentation of Chinese tales about cats ...(展开全部)

Do all cultures and historical periods have a concept corresponding to the English word emotion? This collection of essays is concerned with the closest candidate within the Chinese language, namely the term qíng. What is the meaning of this term in different periods and genres? What are the types of discourse in which it is typically found? This volume contains two essays on t...(展开全部)

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 Great Void. The goddess, one of the divine women in Chinese literature who inspire contradictory impulses of attachment and detachment, tells Pao-yü that the purpose of his dream vis...(展开全部)

The Ming–Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China was an epochal event that reverberated in Qing writings and beyond; political disorder was bound up with vibrant literary and cultural production. Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature focuses on the discursive and imaginative space commanded by women. Encompassing writings by women and by me...(展开全部)

The Ming–Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China was an epochal event that reverberated in Qing writings and beyond; political disorder was bound up with vibrant literary and cultural production. Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature focuses on the discursive and imaginative space commanded by women. Encompassing writings by women and by me...(展开全部)

During the first thirty years under communism, China completely banned crime fiction. After Mao, however, crime genres of all kinds-old and new, Chinese and Western-sprang up in profusion. Crime narrative again became one of the most prolific and best-loved forms of Chinese popular culture, and it often embodied the Chinese people's most trenchant and open critiques of their ne...(展开全部)

The Chinese essay is arguably China’s most distinctive contribution to modern world literature, and the period of its greatest influence and popularity—the mid-1930s—is the central concern of this book. What Charles Laughlin terms "the literature of leisure" is a modern literary response to the cultural past that manifests itself most conspicuously in the form of short, informa...(展开全部)

刘若愚（James Liu，1926-1986），生前为美国斯坦福大学教授，主要研究中国古典诗歌、诗论和文论，以及中西比较文学、比较诗学。他还著有《中国诗艺》、《中国之游侠》、《李商隐的诗》、《北宋主要诗人》、《中国文学艺术基础》、《跨语种批评家》、《悖论—语言—诗学》。

European Decadence, a controversial artistic movement that flourished mainly in late-nineteenth-century France and Britain, has inspired several generations of Chinese writers and literary scholars since it was introduced to China in the early 1920s. Translated into Chinese as tuifei, which has strong hedonistic and pessimistic connotations, the concept of Decadence has proven ...(展开全部)

Table of Contents Illustrations Note on Romanization Preface: An Invitation to Explore the City 1 Introduction: The City in Modern Chinese Cultural History 2 Urban Configurations: Small Town, Ancient Capital, Modern Metropolis 3 Mapping the Ancient Capital of Beijing 4 The Symbolic Triumph of Chinese Tradition in Beijing 5 Reading the Illegible Metropolis of Shanghai 6 Th...(展开全部)