Great Books Of China Av Frances Wood

<b>Discover ¿ or rediscover ¿ the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization.</b><i>Great Books of China</i> offers concise introductions ¿ each of them accompanied by generous quotation (in English) from the book in question ¿ to sixty-six works in the canon of Chinese literature.The books chosen reflect the chronological and thematic breadth of Chinese literary tradition, ranging from such classics as <i>The Book of Songs</i> and the <i>Confucian Analects</i>, through popular dramas and novels (<i>The Romance of the Western Chamber</i>; <i>The Water Margin</i>), twentieth-century political and biographical works (<i>Quotations from Chairman Mao</i>, the autobiography of the last emperor) and modern novels that are little known in the West (<i>Memories of South Peking</i>, <i>Six Chapters from a Cadre School Life</i>).Frances Wood presents a comprehensive, accessible and richly informative primer for the uninitiated; a box of delights that opens up an entire literary cultu