The Columbia History of Chinese Literature

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The Columbia History of Chinese Literature is written by Victor H. Mair and published by Columbia University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0231109849 (ISBN 10) and 9780231109840 (ISBN 13).

Begins with the linguistic and intellectual foundations of Chinese literature and moves successively through verse, prose, fiction, drama, and commentary and criticism; it then closes with popular and peripheral manifestations. A special feature is the focus on such contextual subjects as the history of popular culture, the effect of religion upon literature, the role of women, and relationships with non-Sinitic languages and peoples.