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The Resurrected Skeleton: From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun

Wilt L. Idema - Literary Criticism - 2014 - 288 pages
The early Chinese text Master Zhuang (Zhuangzi) is well known for its relativistic philosophy and colorful anecdotes. In the work, Zhuang Zhou ca. 300 B.C.E.) dreams that he is ...
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The Writing of Official History Under the T'ang

Denis Twitchett - History - 2002 - 312 pages
This book describes the selection, processing and editing of material for an authorized history of the T'ang.
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Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-century China: Society, Culture ...

Chun-shu Chang, Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang - China - 1998 - 472 pages
Describes the social and cultural transformation of seventeenth-century China through the life and work of Li Yu
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In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture

Geremie Barmé - History - 1999 - 560 pages
A leading observer of Chinese literature, society, and politics lifts the veil on the culture wars that have raged between officials and dissidents in the period before and ...
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Guanzi

Zhong Guan, W. Allyn Rickett - History - 1985 - 600 pages
Named for the famous Chinese minister of state, Guan Zhong (d. 645 B.C.), the Guanzi is one of the largest collections of ancient Chinese writings still in existence. With this ...
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Lost Voices of Modernity: A Chinese Popular Fiction Magazine in Context

Denise Gimpel - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 342 pages
Lost Voices of Modernity uncovers the story of the most popular and perhaps the most maligned modern Chinese literary journal, Xiaoshuo yuebao (The Short Story Magazine). First ...
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The Culture of Sex in Ancient China

Paul R. Goldin - Social Science - 2001 - 244 pages
The subject of sex was central to early Chinese thought. Discussed openly and seriously as a fundamental topic of human speculation, it was an important source of imagery and ...
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