Anthology of Tang and Song Tales : The Tang Song chuanqi ji of Lu Xun

This volume is the first complete English rendition of the 45 famous tales in the monumental anthology masterfully selected and edited by Lu Xun (1881-1936). It is the most distinctive, authoritative, and influential chuanqi collection thus far, and many of the pieces are rendered for the first time. This is an important contribution to the field of Chinese studies in the English-speaking world.

"With this collection of short classical language fiction, Lu Xun effectively defined the canonical Tang and Song prose narratives for his and subsequent generations of modern Chinese readers. But many later scholars and translators have concentrated on only a few of these stories, leaving the rest virtually ignored. Now, nearly a century after Lu Xun's original publication, this combination of text, translation, and explanatory notes all in one volume will guarantee that Anthology of Tang and Song Tales will introduce new generations of students and comparatists around the world to the range of narrative experimentation carried out by the writers of those centuries, as Lu Xun would have intended." – Robert E Hegel, Washington University, St. Louis


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