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These essays, by Chinese and Western scholars, treat selected aspects of Chinese literary theory, history, and criticism from the age of Confucius to the beginning of the twentieth-century.

The topics examined include Confucius as a literary critic (Donald Holzman); the view of ch'i, or vital force, as a decisive element in creative writing (David Pollard); the literary theories of the eleventh-century poet and essayist Ou-yang Hsiu (Yu-shih Chen) and his contemporary Huang T'ing-chien (Adele Rickett); and the seventeenth-century philosopher-poet Wang Fu-chih (Siu-kit Wong). Other essays consider the Ch'ang-chou School of the Ch'ing dynasty (Florence Chia-ying Yeh Chao); the distinctive methods of criticism applied to the Dream of the Red Chamber by the Chih-yen chai commentators (John Wang); and the educative function of fiction as outlined by Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and Yen Fu at the turn of the century (C.T. Hsia).

Originally published in 1978.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. p. vii
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  1. Chronology of Chinese Dynasties
  2. p. ix
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  1. Abbreviations
  2. pp. xi-xiii
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  1. Introduction
  2. Adele Austin Rickett
  3. pp. 3-20
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  1. Confucius and Ancient Chinese Literary Criticism
  2. Donald Holzman
  3. pp. 21-42
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  1. Ch'i in Chinese Literary Theory
  2. David Pollard
  3. pp. 43-66
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  1. The Literary Theory and Practice of Ou-yang Hsiu
  2. Yu-Shih Chen
  3. pp. 67-96
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  1. Method and Intuition: The Poetic Theories of Huang T'ing-chien
  2. Adele Austin Rickett
  3. pp. 97-120
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  1. Ch'ing and Ching in the Critical Writings of Wang Fu-chih
  2. Siu-Kit Wong
  3. pp. 121-150
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  1. The Ch'ang-chou School of Tz'u Criticism
  2. Chia-Ying Yeh Chao
  3. pp. 151-188
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  1. The Chih-yen-chai Commentary and the Dream of the Red Chamber: A Literary Study
  2. John C. Y. Wang
  3. pp. 189-220
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  1. Yen Fu and Liang Ch'i-ch'ao as Advocates of New Fiction
  2. C. T. Hsia
  3. pp. 221-257
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  1. List of Contributors
  2. pp. 258-260
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 261-269
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