Changing Stories in the Chinese World
Author | : Mark Elvin |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1997 |
ISBN-10 | : 0804730911 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780804730914 |
Rating | : 4/5 (914 Downloads) |
Download or read book Changing Stories in the Chinese World written by Mark Elvin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.