© Columbia University Press
C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature
April, 2004
Cloth, 544 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12990-9
$47.50
/ £28.00
"This produces a gift to the reader which takes its rightful place as a history of criticism as well as literary criticism." — Choloe Starr, The China Quarterly
"[These essays] stand as a remarkable critical legacy and record of one of the leading US experts on Chinese literature." — Forum for Modern Language Studies
"C.T. Hsia has been without question the most influential critic of Chinese fiction since the 1960s...The scholarly essays in this collection are not merely excellent, they fully deserve that overworked epithet 'seminal'." — Patrick Hanan, Harvard University
"Rereading these essays brings a renewed sense of just how great C. T. Hsia's critical contributions havebeen. Assuredly they have great historical value, and every one of his essays has critical insights thatstill sparkle, undimmed by time and the maturation of Chinese literary studies in the West. . . . His essays arestudded with brilliant critical insights about why certain literary works deserve our attention, and why most othersdo not. These essays still provoke, as they have always provoked, and in responding to his insights, hisstudents of all generations will be forced to clarify their own thinking and their own critical biases." — Robert E. Hegel, Washington University