Routledge Handbook of Traditional Chinese Literature

This Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of 3,000 years of Chinese literature from its earliest beginnings to the end of the Qing (1644–1911), the last empire of China.

With a focus on well-known authors and masterpieces in each important genre, this volume covers verses, prose, drama, and fiction arranged in the following thematic groupings:

• Pre-Qin and Han poetry, poetry of the Six Dynast...