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"Ways with Words" presents interpretive essays by scholars from different disciplines on seven core, premodern classical Chinese texts. The remarkable diversity of these works - drawn from literature, philosophy, religion, and art history - challenges the presumption of a monolithic Chinese tradition that has been promoted by scholars and popular culture alike, both in China and the West. The texts themselves include a poem from the "Classic of Poetry" compiled in the sixth century b.c.e.; passages from "Mencius and Zhuangzi"; the "Heart Sutra"; a poem by Du Fu and the "Biography of Yingying" by Yuan Zhen, both written during the Tang dynasty; and "Notes on the Method for the Brush", a tenth-century text attributed to Jing Hao.Both the original Chinese versions and the translations are provided for each primary text. There are at least two essays - when possible from scholars in different fields - on each work. The volume as a whole demonstrates the various ways in which the modern Western reader can confront the impressive variety of texts from the classical Chinese tradition.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Ways with Words
• Subtitle: Writing about Reading Texts from Early China
• Author: Pauline Yu
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292
• EAN: 9780520224667
• ISBN: 0520224663
• ID: 04616635
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 499 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. September 2000

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