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At first, he studied the history of ancient Greece, Byzantium and Roman Empire at Charles University.
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The studies contained in this volume arose over the last thirty years. Originally the range of the materials I intended to include in my selection was very much wider. Publishing difficulties, however, have obliged me to curtail them to something less than half the planned content. At first I intended to include all the studies I supposed might be of interest to readers and represent contributi ons still of some significance for research in this domain of Oriental scholarship. When the necessity arose to limit the contents I gave preference to the standpoint of thematic completeness rather than to what would be of interest to the general reader. Thus in this volume I have confined myself to two them atic fields only-Old Chinese literature and studies dealing with mediaeval storytellers' productions-hua-pen. I have excluded the whole complex of historical studies and all studies relating to the new literature. I am now preparing, on the principal historical theme on which I was engaged already in the period of my studies in Prague under Prof. J. Bidlo, and then in 1928 till 1930, with Prof. B. Karlgren in Sweden and Prof. G. Haloun in Halle, in Germany, a more compendious study in which I hope to sum up the results of my research, and I also intend to publish a volume of selected studies dealing with the New Chinese literature at some later date.
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In the belief that a country's literature can only be fully understood and appreciated in the broad context of history and culture, the series Studies in Chinese Literature and Society provides outstanding scholarship on the theme of Chinese literature from a number of disciplines. The Lyrical and the Epic begins this series with its presentation, the first in book form, of the enlightening essays of Jaroslav Průšek, the foremost European scholar in the area of Chinese literature and culture. Prusek traces two traditions that are evident in modern Chinese literature. He notes the variety, spontaneity, inventiveness, and dynamism of traditional Chinese popular and folk literature. At the same time, however, he gives full attention to the precision of language, the finesse, and the sophistication of expression which form the heritage of the literati culture. through the interaction of these two traditions - the epic/objective and the lyrical/subjective - Průšek demonstrates important relations between traditional and modern Chinese literature. He further explores "correspondences" to both realistic and lyrical trends in European literature. the book ends with a fascinating exchange of views between Průšek and the eminent scholar C. T. Hsia that reveals differing methodologies, approaches, and standards of literary judgment. This debate provides the student of modern Chinese literature with some rewarding insights about the analysis of literary texts. Jaroslav Průšek (1906-1980) was a Czech sinologist. He was considered as the founder of the Prague School of Sinology, and one of the greatest world Sinologists of his time. Sinology is the academic study of China primarily through Chinese language, literature, and history, and often refers to Western scholarship. Its origin may be traced to the examination which Chinese scholars made of their own civilization.
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At first, he studied the history of ancient Greece, Byzantium and Roman Empire at Charles University.
After graduating from Charles University, he went to Germany and Sweden and became the student of Bernard Karlgren. He went back to Czechoslovakia in 1937. In 1952, he was appointed head of Institute of East Asian Studies of Charles University.
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(The studies contained in this volume arose over the last ...)