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Ways with Words: Writing about Reading Texts from Early China

By Pauline Yu (Editor), Peter Bol (Editor), Stephen Owen (Editor), Willard Peterson (Editor)
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By Pauline Yu (Editor), Peter Bol (Editor), Stephen Owen (Editor), Willard Peterson (Editor)
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Ways with Words presents interpretive essays by scholars from different disciplines on seven core, premodern classical Chinese texts. The remarkable diversity of these works—drawn from literature, philosophy, religion, and art history—challenges the presumption of a monolithic Chinese tradition that has been promoted by scholars and popular culture alike, both in China and the West.



The texts themselves include a poem from the Classic of Poetry compiled in the sixth century b.c.e.; passages...