Shuen-Fu Lin
The Transformation of the Chinese Lyrical Tradition: Chiang K'uei and Southern Sung Tz'u Poetry.
Princeton University Press, 1978. First edition. 0691063516 xii/249 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is bound in red cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket displays very light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 
"Chiang K'uei was a major writer of tz'u, the most important poetic genre of the Sung Dynasty. This book explores his work and his career as they exemplified the radical transformation that took place in Chinese life, art, literature, and thought at the turn of the thirteenth century. By combinding biography and Western analytical techniques with an examination of the rich cultural context in which Chiang K'uei wrote, Professor Lin makes an important advance in Chinese literary scholarship."