{"id":2422,"date":"2014-02-24T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T01:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2014-02-08T12:01:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T04:01:06","slug":"qian-zhongshus-patchwork-translated-by-duncan-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2422","title":{"rendered":"Qian Zhongshu’s Patchwork, translated by Duncan Campbell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Brill has published Qian Zhongshu’s \u9322\u937e\u66f8 Patchwork: Seven Essays on Art and Literature<\/em><\/a> \u4e03\u7db4\u96c6, translated by Duncan Campbell.<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Patchwork: Seven Essays on Art and Literature<\/i> 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<\/i> (Guanzhui bian \u7ba1\u9310\u7de8<\/em>) (1979-80) and, as a novelist, for his Fortress Besieged<\/i> (Weicheng \u570d\u57ce<\/em>) (1947), these essays, first written during the period 1948-83 and much revised over the years, allow readers insight into Qian\u2019s abiding concern with \u201cstriking connections\u201d between disparate literary, historical, and intellectual traditions, ancient and modern, Chinese and Western.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Brill has published Qian Zhongshu’s \u9322\u937e\u66f8 Patchwork: Seven Essays on Art and Literature \u4e03\u7db4\u96c6, translated by Duncan Campbell. 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