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ISBN 978-0-521-18678-0 Paperback.
NOT FOR SALE IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF ,A reference guide to chinese literature and texts-classic, history, scholar, Buddhism and literature The long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide, ,became the poems included in the section of "Guofeng" ("Folk.
Songs") in The Book of Songs, the earliest anthology of Chinese poetry.
Poems written for the ,But Chinese literature concerned human relationships and everyday life as well as political education.,Chinese literature began more than two thousand years ago, with The Book of Poetry (Shijing) as its first anthology.
This book,.,Chinese literature is a pleasure to teach and to read; it holds an importance and relevance both in historical terms and in understanding the world today.,Literary works are products of many ingredients, including feeling, thought, knowledge, form, and the use of language; imagination, being but one of the many ,The earliest literature in China was the literature of the scholars.
Scholars collected folk songs from among the people, arranged them and polished them
