Wednesday, December 06, 2023

About the newly published Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature

Recommendable! Good news!

"... This is a library of classical Chinese literature, covering three millennia, from what is now China and from many other places. Just as Latin was the lingua franca in Europe, classical Chinese was the lingua franca of writers in East Asia, so we include authors from Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. The editions are bilingual, Chinese on one side of the page and English on the other. ..."

"Made possible by a generous gift from Agnes Hsu-Tang and Oscar Tang, this exciting new series will publish bilingual editions of literature from the Zhou Dynasty to the end of Imperial China in 1911. Ranging from philosophical, historiographical, and religious literature to poetry, fiction, and drama, it showcases masterworks and expands the canon through lesser-known works and works from the greater Sinographic sphere. ..."

3 Questions: Wiebke Denecke on a landmark project for Chinese literature | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology




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