Chinese Literary Criticism of the Ch’ing Period (1644–1911)

Download or read book Chinese Literary Criticism of the Ch’ing Period (1644–1911) written by John Ching-yu Wang and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1993-12-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Ch'ing period, traditional Chinese literary criticism reached its zenith. The ten essays in this volume, all papers presented at a research conference on Ch'ing literary criticism at Stanford University in June 1992, provide a good glimpse of both the breadth and depth of Ch'ing literary criticism, and point to ways to pursue a more thorough and systematic study of literary criticism of this period. Five essays in Chinese, five in English.