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Christopher G Rea Author, Editor & Translator

Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998), hailed as twentieth-century China's "foremost man of letters," is best known for his novel, Fortress Besieged, and his groundbreaking study of the Chinese literary canon, Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters. Christopher G. Rea is assistant professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of British Columbia.