Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays

Qian Zhongshu, and Edited by Christopher G. Rea; With translations by Dennis T. Hu, Nathan K. Mao, Yiran Mao, Christopher G. Rea, and Philip F. Williams

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Paper, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15275-4
$29.50 / £19.50

December, 2010
Cloth, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15274-7
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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Written in the Margins of Life and Human, Beast, Ghost

Author’s Preface to the 1983 Editions of Written in the Margins of Life and Human, Beast, Ghost

Written in the Margins of Life

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Preface

The Devil Pays a Nighttime Visit to Mr. Qian Zhongshu

Windows

On Happiness

On Laughter

Eating

Reading Aesop’s Fables

On Moral Instruction

A Prejudice

Explaining Literary Blindness

On Writers

Notes

Human, Beast, Ghost

First Preface to the 1946 Kaiming Edition

Second Preface to the 1946 Kaiming Edition

God’s Dream

Cat

Inspiration

Souvenir

Notes

Editions

Further Reading in English

Translators

Related Subjects

• Asian History
• Asian Literature
• Literary Criticism and Theory

Series

• Weatherhead Books on Asia

About the Author

Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998), hailed as twentieth-century China's "foremost man of letters," is best known for his novel, Fortress Besieged, and his groundbreaking study of the Chinese literary canon, Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters.

Christopher G. Rea is assistant professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of British Columbia.

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