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"For the second edition of this dictionary, Ying revised or updated more than 40 entries from the first edition and added some 100 new entries. The dictionary provides entries on major authors (offering biographical and literary introductions) and on historical events, social movements, and institutions and schools that played important roles in the development of modern Chinese literature. The dictionary's most valuable contribution is its extensive bibliography, which is organized into four sections: primary works of individual authors (Chinese original works and English translations), anthologies, surveys and general critical works, and critical works on individual authors. Students of modern Chinese literature will find this bibliography a great starting point.... Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; general readers. -- ""Choice Reviews"" For the second edition of this dictionary, Ying revised or updated more than 40 entries from the first edition and added some 100 new entries. The dictionary provides entries on major authors (offering biographical and literary introductions) and on historical events, social movements, and institutions and schools that played important roles in the development of modern Chinese literature. The dictionary's most valuable contribution is its extensive bibliography, which is organized into four sections: primary works of individual authors (Chinese original works and English translations), anthologies, surveys and general critical works, and critical works on individual authors. Students of modern Chinese literature will find this bibliography a great starting point.... Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; general readers."

For the second edition of this dictionary, Ying revised or updated more than 40 entries from the first edition and added some 100 new entries. The dictionary provides entries on major authors (offering biographical and literary introductions) and on historical events, social movements, and institutions and schools that played important roles in the development of modern Chinese literature. The dictionary's most valuable contribution is its extensive bibliography, which is organized into four sections: primary works of individual authors (Chinese original works and English translations), anthologies, surveys and general critical works, and critical works on individual authors. Students of modern Chinese literature will find this bibliography a great starting point.... Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; general readers.-- Choice

For the second edition of this dictionary, Ying revised or updated more than 40 entries from the first edition and added some 100 new entries. The dictionary provides entries on major authors (offering biographical and literary introductions) and on historical events, social movements, and institutions and schools that played important roles in the development of modern Chinese literature. The dictionary's most valuable contribution is its extensive bibliography, which is organized into four sections: primary works of individual authors (Chinese original works and English translations), anthologies, surveys and general critical works, and critical works on individual authors. Students of modern Chinese literature will find this bibliography a great starting point.... Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; general readers.

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Li-hua Ying is director of the Chinese and Japanese Program at Bard College. She is also the executive director of the Association of Shufa Calligraphy Education, an academic organization based in the United States.

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