Chinese Literature and Criticsim in a Comparative Context

FAIN: FS-10238-76

Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305-2004)
James J. Y. Liu (Project Director: January 1976 to present)

To study Chinese literature in translation, emphasizing such topics as the differences between Chinese and Western literary genres, forms, and conventions, the applicability of current Western approaches in criticism to Chinese literature, and the relativistic and universal qualities by which Chinese literature should be judged.