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This translation of 65 pieces from Qian Zhongshu's Guanzshui bian (Limited Views) makes available in English a representative selection of essays and reading notes on the classics of early Chinese literature. First published in 1979, it is a comprehensive treatment of themes and motifs in early Chinese writing.

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PublisherHarvard University, Asia Center

ISBN-100674534115

ISBN-139780674534117

eBay Product ID (ePID)291423

Product Key Features

Original LanguageChinese

Book TitleLimited Views : Essays on Ideas and Letters

Number of Pages494 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAsian / Chinese

Publication Year1998

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism

TypeTextbook

AuthorQian Zhongshu, Chung-Shu Ch'ien

Book SeriesHarvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight28.9 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Dewey Edition21

Series Volume Number44

Lccn97-037383

Target AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Decimal895.1/09

Lc Classification NumberPl2461.Z6c534213 199

Table of ContentIntroduction General Issues in Aesthetics and Criticism The Meaning Surpasses the Image Worldly Frustration and Literary Composition Personal Conduct and Literary Style Poetic Landscapes and Fidelity to Nature The Corruption of Consciousness The Writer as Critic Sadness as the Primary Value in Music Saddened by a Height Complex Emotions in Literature The Origins of "Delighting the Mind" in Landscape Script and Nature, Script and Painting "Resonance" in Criticism on the Arts The Misreading of Xie He's "Six Canons" The Early History of the Concept Resonance and Concealment A Lost Twelfth-Century Treatise From Music to the Literary and Visual Arts Metaphor, Image, and the Psychology of Perception Metaphors Have Two Handles and Several Sides "Human Life Is Like Ice" Imagery in the Changes and the Songs Gifts with Symbolic Meanings Reverse Symbolism The Domesticating Metaphor Inflated Language Synaesthesia Constant Qualities, Variant Perceptions The Name but Not the Reality Impossible Tropes On Not Recognizing Mirrors Using Sound to Emphasize Silence The Motif of the Other Shore Semantics and Literary Stylistics The Hermeneutic Circle Characters with Multiple Meanings Used Simultaneously Dialectics in Words and Emotions Chiasmus Quoting Out of Context Degrees of Grammaticalness Poetic Conventions and the Problem of Distorted Meaning "Difficulty" in Prose Style Literary Style and the Detection of Forgeries A Defense of Parallel Prose Literary Writing and Utilitarian Prose Event and Background in Early Historical Writings On "Laozi," with Reference to Buddhism and Other Mystical Philosophies The Way and Names The Insights and Myopia of Mystical Philosophies Heaven and Earth Are Inhuman, the Sage Is Inhuman The Body as a Source of Trouble Modeling Oneself on Nature Fallacia Divisionis On Not Speaking While Speaking Right Words Look Like Contradictions The Demonic and the Divine Fate Versus Divine Justice Ghosts and Gods Inconsistencies in The Zuo Commentary Nomenclature: "Ghost," "Daemon," and "Heaven" God on High and the King of Zhou Ghosts and Daemons Are Neither All-Seeing nor Just Witchcraft More Joy on Earth than in Heaven Time in Heaven, Earth, and Hell Rebuking Heaven Ghosts That Die "Born from a Brush" and "Killed by a Painting" Poets in Hell Society and Thought Stupefying the People Critiques of "Driving Out the Foreigners" The Concepts "Chinese" and "Barbarian" Giving Books to the Barbarians The Sage Does Not Experience Emotion Marriage and Fate Rivalry Between Shamans and Doctors Monks and Lice Vegetarians with Impure Minds Tears at Partings Reference Matter Works Cited Finding List Index of Proper Names, Titles, and Terms

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Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Ser.: Limited Views : Essays on Ideas and Letters by Chung-Shu Ch'ien and Qian Zhongshu (1998, Hardcover)