Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature. (book reviews)

In a comprehensive overview of Chinese literature published in 1966, Liu Wu-chi traced the origins of Chinese literature to two sources: the Shih ching [Character no conversion] [Classic of poetry], an anthology of poems - said to have been scrutinized and transmitted by Confucius himself - that represented the Yellow River civilization of the fifth and fourth centuries B.

C.; and the Ch'u tz'u [Character no conversion] [Songs of Ch'u], a compendium of poetry by Ch'u Yuan [Character no conversion] and Sung Yin [Character no conversion] that comprised the literary pride of ancient ...

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