Description: This book offers a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and its literary and cultural significance. It features more than one hundred major texts from antiquity through the Qing dynasty that exemplify major genres, styles, and forms of traditional Chinese prose.
Review Quotes: The unusual depth and breadth of this collection is a major boon, as is the new and very useful organization of Chinese prose genres into the four forms of narrative, descriptive, discursive and communicative. This impressive work will be essential for Chinese literature professors and graduate students--Carrie (Reed) Wiebe, Middlebury College