Anthology of Chinese Literature: Volume II: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present Day, Paperback - Cyril Birch

Reducere. Represented here are examples of various categories of Chinese literary composition-verses, songs, stories, essays, drama, and excerpts from novels...

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This collection of Chinese stories begins with the great legends of how Earth and Heaven came into being. There are folk-tales too, about ghosts an...

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Exploring the changing meanings of the circulation of second-hand goods from the Renaissance, this volume examines the blurring of boundaries betwe...

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