The Oxford handbook of classical Chinese literature (1000 bce-900 ce) / [electronic resource] Edited by Wiebke Denecke, Wai-Yee Li, and Xiaofei Tian.

Key Concepts of "Literature" / Stephen Owen -- Literary Learning: Encyclopedias and Epitomes / Xiaofei Tian -- Libraries, Book Catalogues, Lost Writings / Glen Dudbridge -- Classics / David Schaberg -- Histories / Stepphen Durrant -- Masters / Wiebke Denecke -- Collections / Xiaofei Tian -- Chinese Poetry / Paul Rouzer -- Elite and Popular Literature / Wilt Idema -- Narrative Genres / Sarah Allen -- Pre-Tang Anthologies and Anthologization / David R. Knechtges -- Periodization and Major Inflection Points / Stephen Owen -- Anthologies in the Tang / Paul W. Kroll -- The Song Reception of Earlier Literature / Stephen Owen -- Textual Transmission of Earlier Literature during the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties / Wai-Yee Li -- Defenses of Literature/Literary Thought/Poetics / Paul Rouzer -- Concepts of Authorship / Wai-Yee Li -- Tradition Formation: Beginnings to Eastern Han / Stepphen Durrant -- Classicisms in Chinese Literary Culture: Six Dynasties through Tang / Anna Shields -- Moments / Paula Varsano -- Sites I / Jack Chen -- Sites II / Wendy Swartz -- The Chinese Writing System / Imre Galambos -- Figures / Wai-Yee Li -- Colonization, Sinicization, and the Multigraphic Northwest / Tamara T. Chin -- Translation / David Boucher -- Shared Literary Heritage in the Sinographic Sphere / Wiebke Denecke, Nam Nguyen -- Sino-Korean Literature / Peter Kornicki -- Early Sino-Japanese Literature / Wiebke Denecke -- Sino-Vietnamese Literature / Peter Kornicki -- Literary Media: Writing and Orality / Christopher M.B. Nugent -- Manuscript Culture / Christopher M.B. Nugent -- The Relationship of Calligraphy and Painting to Literature / Ronald Egan -- Education and the Examination System / Rebecca Doran -- Text and Commentary: The Early Tradition / Michael Puett -- Text and Commentary in the Medieval Period / Yu-yu Cheng.

his volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century BCE through a conceptual framework centered on textual production and transmission. It focuses on recuperating historical perspectives for the period it surveys, and attempts to draw connections between the past and present.