C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature (Masters of Chinese Studies, V. 1)

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"This produces a gift to the reader which takes its rightful place as a history of criticism as well as literary criticism." -- Choloe Starr, The China Quarterly


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"C.T. Hsia has been without question the most influential critic of Chinese fiction since the 1960s...The scholarly essays in this collection are not merely excellent, they fully deserve that overworked epithet 'seminal'." -- Patrick Hanan, Harvard University


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Rereading these essays brings a renewed sense of just how great C. T. Hsia's critical contributions have been. Assuredly they have great historical value, and every one of his essays has critical insights that still sparkle, undimmed by time and the maturation of Chinese literary studies in the West. . . . His essays are studded with brilliant critical insights about why certain literary works deserve our attention, and why most others do not. These essays still provoke, as they have always provoked, and in responding to his insights, his students of all generations will be forced to clarify their own thinking and their own critical biases.


Book Description
Best known for the groundbreaking works A History of Modern Chinese Fiction (1961) and The Classic Chinese Novel (1968), C. T. Hsia has gathered sixteen essays and studies written during his Columbia years as a professor of Chinese literature. Wider in range and scope, C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature stands beside his two earlier books as part of his critical legacy to all readers seriously interested in the subject.


About the Author
A bilingual author of wide influence among Chinese readers, C. T. Hsia has also published several volumes of criticism and essays in both Taiwan and mainland China, and coedited with Joseph S. M. Lau and Leo O. Lee Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949 for Columbia University Press. He retired from teaching in 1991 and is now professor emeritus of Chinese at Columbia University.


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Best known for the groundbreaking works A History of Modern Chinese Fiction (1961) and The Classic Chinese Novel (1968), C. T. Hsia has gathered sixteen essays and studies written during his Columbia years as a professor of Chinese literature. Wider in range and scope, C. T. Hsia On Chinese Literature stands beside his two earlier books as part of his critical legacy to all readers seriously interested in the subject.


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