Chinese Literature

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✅ Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China ​🇨🇳​, and ➕ China ​🇨🇳​`s survival over three 3️⃣ thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very ❗️ Short Introduction tells 🗣️ the story of Chinese literature from antiquity to the present 🎁, focusing on the key 🔑 role literary culture 🧫 played ▶️ in supporting social and ➕ political concerns. Embracing traditional Chinese understandings of literature as encompassing history and ➕ philosophy as well as poetry and ➕ poetics, storytelling, drama, and ➕ the novel, Sabina Knight discusses the philosophical foundations of literary 🧫 as well as literature`s power to address historical trauma ➕ cultivate moral ➕ sensual passions. From ancient historical ⏺️ through the modernization ➕ globalization of Chinese literature, Knight 🖌️ on lively examples to underscore the close relationship between ethics ➕ aesthetics, as well as well as literature`s power to address historical trauma and cultivate moral and sensual passions. From ancient historical records through the modernization and globalization of Chinese literature, Knight draws on lively examples to underscore the close relationship between ethics and aesthetics, as well as the diversity of Chinese thought 💭. Knight also illuminates the role of elite patronage; the ways literature has served the interests of specific groups; and ➕ questions ❓️ of canonization, language, nationalism, and ➕ cross 🤞-cultural understanding. The book 📚️ includes Chinese characters for names 📛, titles, and ➕ key 🔑 terms.

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