(Paperback)
By: Andrew H. Plaks
ISBN: 9780691617404
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Surprisingly little has been written in Western languages about the eighteenth- century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, perhaps the supreme masterpiece of its entire tradition. In this study, Andrew H. Plaks has used the conceptual tools of comparative literature to focus on the novel's allegorical elements and narrative structure. He there
(Hardback)
By: Andrew H. Plaks
ISBN: 9780691644547
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Andrew H. Plaks
ISBN: 9780691609928
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Although Chinese narrative, and especially the genres of colloquial fiction, have been subjected to intensive scholarly scrutiny, no comprehensive volume has provided a framework that would permit an overall view of the tradition. The distinguished contributors to this volume have taken an important first step in making possible the consideration o
(Hardback)
By: Andrew H. Plaks
ISBN: 9780691638119
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Andrew H. Plaks
ISBN: 9780691628202
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Andrew H. Plaks
ISBN: 9780691653853
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Andrew H. Plaks
ISBN: 9780691273518
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the "Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel" (ssu ta ch'i-shu). Arguing that these are far more than collections of popular narratives, Professor Plaks shows that their fullest recensions represent a sophisticated new genre of Chinese prose fiction arising in the late Ming dynasty, e
