This dual-language compilation of seven complete major works and many shorter pieces from the Confucian period through the Ch'ing dynasty will be indispensable to students of Chinese literature. Owen's masterful translations and commentaries have opened up Chinese literary thought to theorists and scholars of other languages.

Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University with joint appointments in the Department of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Read More by Stephen Owen:

• Mi-lou: Poetry and the Labyrinth of Desire
• Remembrances: The Experience of Past in Classical Chinese Literature
• The Appropriation of Cultural Capital: China's May Fourth Project
• The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry
• The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860)