Cyril Birch

Anthology of Chinese Literature: Volume I: from Early Times to the Fourteenth Century Cyril Birch

Jacket Description/Back: Internationally renowned Chinese literature scholar Cyril Birch was the first to assemble the finest translations of these seminal pieces in his now classic and still definitive anthologies. The selections in this first volume span a two-thousand-year period: from the Chou Dynasty (1122-221 B. C.) to the Yuan Dynasty (A. D. 1280-1367), from the ancient Songs to the dramas of the fourteenth century, every major genre of Chinese literature is represented by a crucial work. Publisher Marketing: Presents classic Chinese tales of love and morality, marriage and justice, and the strange and supernatural. Review Citations:

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1993 pg. 710 (EAN 9780802150387, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 678 (EAN 9780802150387, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2004 pg. 688 (EAN 9780802150387, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1993 pg. 710 (EAN 9780802150905, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 678 (EAN 9780802150905, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2004 pg. 688 (EAN 9780802150905, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Birch, Cyril Cyril Birch is a professor in the Department of Oriental Languages at Berkeley in California. Contributor Bio:  Keene, Donald Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841, and the definitive multi-volume history of Japanese literature, Sources of Japanese Tradition.