This study adopts a double approach to the poetry composed between the end of the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E; it first considers the period synchronically, then discusses how scholars shaped and created the standard account of classical poetry from this material.
By examining how narrative strategies reinforce or contest deterministic paradigms, this work describes modern Chinese fiction’s unique contribution to ethical and literary debates over the possibility for meaningful moral action.
This volume addresses cultural and literary transformation in the late Ming (1550–1644) and late Qing (1851–1911) eras.
This anthology offers us a glimpse of women’s writings not only in poetry but in other genres as well, including essays and letters, drama, religious writing, and narrative fiction.
