Vignettes from the Late Ming A Hsiao-p'in Anthology

• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Washington Press 2011
• Subjects: Anthologies (non-poetry); Anthologies: general
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This anthology presents seventy translated and annotated short essays, or hsiao-p'in, by fourteen well-known sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chinese writers. Hsiao-p'in, characterized by spontaneity and brevity, were a relatively informal variation on the established classical prose sty...