Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters

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Harvard University Asia Center, 1998 - Literary Collections - 483 pages
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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Introduction I
1
The Meaning Surpasses the Image
29
Worldly Frustration and Literary Composition
35
Copyright

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Ronald C. Egan is Professor of Sinology in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University.