Changing Stories in the Chinese World

By Mark Elvin

Book Overview

This is an imaginative evocation and analysis-through the medium of translations (the author's own) of once popular but now forgotten literature-of the variety of "stories" in terms of which the Chinese have interpreted their lives since the early years of the 19th century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804730911
• ISBN13: 9780804730914
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"