Patchwork

Seven Essays on Art and Literature

By: Zhongshu QIAN

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Hardcover | 6 February 2014

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Patchwork: Seven Essays on Art and Literature 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 (Guanzhui bian) (1979-80) and, as a novelist, for his Fortress Besieged (Weicheng) (1947), these essays, first written during the period 1948-83 and much revised over the years, allow readers insight into Qian's abiding concern with "striking connections" between disparate literary, historical, and intellectual traditions, ancient and modern, Chinese and Western.

Dr. Duncan Campbell was awarded the China Book Award for Special Contributions at the 23rd Beijing International Book Fair. Dr. Campbell received this award for his translation of this volume.

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"Duncan Campbell's translation of Qian Zhongshu's Patchwork: Seven Essays on Art and Literature is a labour of love that enables readers of English to reach deeper understandings of how one twentieth-century Chinese intellectual construed both Chinese and Western traditions in literature and the arts. [...] Rather than "domesticate" the text for an English-speaking audience, Campbell has chosen to make it rich in Chinese linguistic forms. The liberal inclusion of both pinyin and Chinese characters for key terms, easy to do now in our digital age, is a great boon to scholars who may wish to pursue further study of the sources and the arguments." Ellen Soulliere, Massey University, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 17.1 (June 2015)

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