Download or read book The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature written by Victor H. Mair and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This shorter anthology retains the characteristics of the original in that it is arranged according to genre rather than chronology and interprets "literature" very broadly to include not just literary fiction, poetry, and drama, but folk and popular literature, lyrics and arias, elegies and rhapsodies, biographies, autobiographies and memoirs, letters, criticism and theory, and travelogues and jokes. It also contains fresh translations by newer voices in the field.