A Tower for the Summer Heat
- ISBN-10
- 0231113854
- ISBN-13
- 9780231113854
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 258
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Author
- Yu Li
Description
Hanan has translated six of the twelve stories in the Sh'ier lou collection, which is the most famous individual collection of vernacular stories from premodern China. With Hanan's introduction and notes, and containing Li Yu's emphasis marks, notes, and critiques, this volume will interest students of Chinese literature and general readers alike.
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