A History of Chinese Literature
by Herbert Allen Giles
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About this eBook
- Author
- Giles, Herbert Allen, 1845-1935
- Credits
- Henry Flower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PL: Language and Literatures: Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
- Subject
- Chinese literature -- History and criticism
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 43711
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43711
- Release Date
- September 13, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A HISTORY OF CHINESE LITERATURE
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.BOOK THE FIRST THE FEUDAL PERIOD ( B.C. 600-200) — CHAPTER I LEGENDARY AGES—EARLY CHINESE CIVILISATION—ORIGIN OF WRITING — CHAPTER II CONFUCIUS—THE FIVE CLASSICS — CHAPTER III THE FOUR BOOKS—MENCIUS — CHAPTER IV MISCELLANEOUS WRITERS — Chapter V POETRY—INSCRIPTIONS — CHAPTER VI TAOISM—THE “TAO-TÊ-CHING”
- 5.BOOK THE SECOND THE HAN DYNASTY ( B.C. 200— A.D. 200) — CHAPTER I THE “FIRST EMPEROR”—THE BURNING OF THE BOOKS—MISCELLANEOUS WRITERS — CHAPTER II POETRY — CHAPTER III HISTORY—LEXICOGRAPHY — CHAPTER IV BUDDHISM
- 6.BOOK THE THIRD MINOR DYNASTIES ( A.D. 200-600) — CHAPTER I POETRY—MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE — CHAPTER II CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP
- 7.BOOK THE FOURTH THE T‘ANG DYNASTY ( A.D. 600-900) — CHAPTER I POETRY — CHAPTER II CLASSICAL AND GENERAL LITERATURE
- 8.BOOK THE FIFTH THE SUNG DYNASTY ( A.D. 900-1200) — CHAPTER I THE INVENTION OF BLOCK-PRINTING — CHAPTER II HISTORY—CLASSICAL AND GENERAL LITERATURE — CHAPTER III POETRY — CHAPTER IV DICTIONARIES—ENCYCLOPÆDIAS—MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE
- 9.BOOK THE SIXTH THE MONGOL DYNASTY ( A.D. 1200-1368) — CHAPTER I MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE—POETRY — CHAPTER II THE DRAMA — THE FLOWERY BALL. — CHAPTER III THE NOVEL
- 10.BOOK THE SEVENTH THE MING DYNASTY ( A.D. 1368-1644) — CHAPTER I MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE—MATERIA MEDICA—ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF AGRICULTURE — CHAPTER II NOVELS AND PLAYS — CHAPTER III POETRY
- 11.BOOK THE EIGHTH THE MANCHU DYNASTY ( A.D. 1644-1900) — CHAPTER I THE “LIAO CHAI”—THE “HUNG LOU MÊNG” — CHAPTER II THE EMPERORS K‘ANG HSI AND CH’IEN LUNG — CHAPTER III CLASSICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE—POETRY — CHAPTER IV WALL LITERATURE—JOURNALISM—WIT AND HUMOUR—PROVERBS AND MAXIMS
- 12.BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- 13.INDEX
- 14.FOOTNOTES
- 15.Transcriber's Note
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