Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China\'s survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history.
Embracing traditional Chinese understandings of literature as encompassing history and ph.
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.
Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China\'s survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history