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Patchwork: Seven Essays on Art and Literature presents in English translation a number of essays written by the Chinese literary scholar and novelist Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998). One of the great minds of the twentieth century, Qian, with his characteristic erudition and wit, addresses here aspects of the classical literary and artistic traditions of China. Better known, as a scholar, for his magisterial Limited Views: Essays on Ideas & Letters (Guanzhui bian) (1979-80) and, as a novelist, for his Fortress Besieged (Weicheng) (1947), these essays, first written during the period 1948-83 and much revised over the years, allow readers insight into Qian's abiding concern with "striking connections" between disparate literary, historical, and intellectual traditions, ancient and modern, Chinese and Western.
Dr. Duncan Campbell was awarded the China Book Award for Special Contributions at the 23rd Beijing International Book Fair. Dr. Campbell received this award for his translation of this volume.
Contents
Series Editors' Foreword
Introduction by Professor Zhang Longxi
Translator's Introduction
Preface
Chinese Poetry and Chinese Painting
On Reading Laokoon
Synaesthesia
Lin Shu's Translations
Poetry as a Vehicle of Grief
(translated by Siu-kit Wong)
Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life"—the First English Poem Translated into Chinese—and Several Other Related Matters
An Historical Anecdote, a Religious Parable, and a Novel
Appendix
