Chinese Classical Prose: The Eight Masters of the T’ang-Sung Period amply demonstrating her poetic gifts

amply demonstrating her poetic gifts

At the start you read with a sense of relaxation

keen characterizations

spanning three quarters of a century

and miscellaneous writing

Chinese Classical Prose: The Eight Masters of the T’ang-Sung Period amply demonstrating her poetic giftsSelected and translated by Shih Shun Liu with Notes and Chinese Texts 1979 xvii + 365 pages ISBN 962 201 179 9 In the study and translation of Chinese literature by Western scholars, a comparatively neglected area is that of the ku wen, or classical prose of the T'ang Sung period, extending from the 8th to the11th century A. D. This body of writing, the product of a renaissance movement led by the great scholar official Han Y, was reminiscent of the