Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts
Stories and Essays
1st Edition
Published on 29. October 2015
272 pages
978-0-231-52654-8 (ISBN)
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Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998), hailed as twentieth-century China's "foremost man of letters," is best known for his novel, Fortress Besieged, and his groundbreaking study of the Chinese literary canon, Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters.
Christopher G. Rea is assistant professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of British Columbia.
Christopher G. Rea is assistant professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of British Columbia.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Written in the Margins of Life and Human, Beast, Ghost
Author's Preface to the 1983 Editions of Written in the Margins of Life and Human, Beast, Ghost
Written in the Margins of Life
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
The Devil Pays a Nighttime Visit to Mr. Qian Zhongshu
Windows
On Happiness
On Laughter
Eating
Reading Aesop's Fables
On Moral Instruction
A Prejudice
Explaining Literary Blindness
On Writers
Notes
Human, Beast, Ghost
First Preface to the 1946 Kaiming Edition
Second Preface to the 1946 Kaiming Edition
God's Dream
Cat
Inspiration
Souvenir
Notes
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Further Reading in English
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Introduction
Written in the Margins of Life and Human, Beast, Ghost
Author's Preface to the 1983 Editions of Written in the Margins of Life and Human, Beast, Ghost
Written in the Margins of Life
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
The Devil Pays a Nighttime Visit to Mr. Qian Zhongshu
Windows
On Happiness
On Laughter
Eating
Reading Aesop's Fables
On Moral Instruction
A Prejudice
Explaining Literary Blindness
On Writers
Notes
Human, Beast, Ghost
First Preface to the 1946 Kaiming Edition
Second Preface to the 1946 Kaiming Edition
God's Dream
Cat
Inspiration
Souvenir
Notes
Editions
Further Reading in English
Translators
