Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)

Qian, Zhongshu; Ronald C. Egan (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0674534115 / ISBN 13: 9780674534117

Published by Harvard University Asia Center, 1998

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Inscribed by translator on title page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)
• Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674534115
• ISBN 13: 9780674534117
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Translator
• Seller catalogs:
  • S. Gross Collection

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Synopsis

This translation of 65 pieces from Qian Zhongshu's Guanzhui bian (Limited Views) makes available for the first time in English a representative selection from Qian's massive four-volume collection of essays and reading notes on the classics of early Chinese literature. First published in 1979, it has been hailed as one of the most insightful and comprehensive treatments of themes and motifs in early Chinese writing to appear in this century. Scholar, novelist, and essayist Qian Zhongshu (b. 1910) is arguably contemporary China's foremost man of letters, and Limited Views is recognized as the culmination of his study of literature in both the Chinese and the Western traditions.

About the Author

Ronald Egan is the Stanford W. Ascherman, M.D. Professor of Sinology at Stanford University.