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A History of Chinese Literature

Herbert Allen Giles

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1. Front matter 2. PREFACE 3. CONTENTS 4. CHAPTER I LEGENDARY AGES—EARLY CHINESE CIVILISATION—ORIGIN OF WRITING 5. CHAPTER II CONFUCIUS—THE FIVE CLASSICS 6. CHAPTER III THE FOUR BOOKS—MENCIUS 7. CHAPTER IV MISCELLANEOUS WRITERS 8. Chapter V POETRY—INSCRIPTIONS 9. CHAPTER VI TAOISM—THE “TAO-TÊ-CHING”10. CHAPTER I THE “FIRST EMPEROR”—THE BURNING OF THE BOOKS—MISCELLANEOUS WRITERS 11. CHAPTER II POETRY 12. CHAPTER III HISTORY—LEXICOGRAPHY 13. CHAPTER IV BUDDHISM 14. CHAPTER I POETRY—MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE 15. CHAPTER II CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP 16. CHAPTER I POETRY 17. CHAPTER II CLASSICAL AND GENERAL LITERATURE 18. CHAPTER I THE INVENTION OF BLOCK-PRINTING 19. CHAPTER II HISTORY—CLASSICAL AND GENERAL LITERATURE 20. CHAPTER III POETRY 21. CHAPTER IV DICTIONARIES—ENCYCLOPÆDIAS—MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE 22. CHAPTER I MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE—POETRY 23. CHAPTER II THE DRAMA 24. CHAPTER III THE NOVEL 25. CHAPTER I MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE—MATERIA MEDICA—ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF AGRICULTURE 26. CHAPTER II NOVELS AND PLAYS 27. CHAPTER III POETRY 28. CHAPTER I THE “LIAO CHAI”—THE “HUNG LOU MÊNG”29. CHAPTER II THE EMPERORS K‘ANG HSI AND CH’IEN LUNG 30. CHAPTER III CLASSICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE—POETRY 31. CHAPTER IV WALL LITERATURE—JOURNALISM—WIT AND HUMOUR—PROVERBS AND MAXIMS 32. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 33. INDEX

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