Jonathan Chaves makes available a vast store of rich and significant poems by both major and minor poets from China's last three dynasties. Featured are poems from the Yuan dynasty, which range from quiet landscape depictions to expansive, freely expressive works; from the Ming era, notable for its stylistic quality and its diversity; and from tte Ch'ing dynasty, known for poets who, by refusing to fit into any category, helped continue the fascinating richness of late Ming cultural life. Annotated with biographical sketches of the poets and illustrated with their paintings, this collection is an unprecedented anthology of exceptionally well translated Chinese poetry up to the twentieth century.
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Jonathan Chaves is Associate Professor of Chinese at the George Washington University. He is the author of Pilgrim of the Clouds, Heaven My Blanket, Earth My Pillow, and Mei Yaoch'en and the Development of Early Sung Poetry (published by Columbia University Press).
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Excellent collection of Chinese poetry,
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This, one of two related anthologies of Chinese poetry, is an excellent overview of some of the best Chinese poems. There is a wide selection of different styles of poems from different authors. The only complaints are that the original Chinese is not printed, and there are few poems by women authors.
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I haven't read this book but can see from what's presented here that the book's editors and publishers are still using the Wade-Giles system of transcription of Chinese. At this stage of the game with pinyin having been the standard at least since the 1980's, why are they still using the Wade-Giles system?
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TAI earned his chin-shih degree and briefly held office under the Sung dynasty (960-1279), but with the accession to power of the Mongol Yuan dynasty, he went into retirement, supporting himself by accepting students and selling his own writings-a practice rare in earlier periods but increasingly common in late Sung and Yuan. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shih poetry, chanting poems, setting sunlight, willow catkins, poem inscribed, major painter, hanging scroll Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Lake, Chuang Tzu, Shen Chou, Kao Ch'i, Miscellaneous Poems, New York, Peach Blossom Spring, Chin Nung, Cold Food Festival, Five Lakes, Ch'ien Ch'ien-i, Cheng Hsieh, Hsi Shih, Master Jen, Wen Cheng-ming, Yang Shih-ch'i, Yellow River, Former Seven Masters, T'ao Ch'ien, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wang Wei, Burton Watson, Chang Shih-ch'eng, Che School, Grand Secretary New!
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TAI earned his chin-shih degree and briefly held office under the Sung dynasty (960-1279), but with the accession to power of the Mongol Yuan dynasty, he went into retirement, supporting himself by accepting students and selling his own writings-a practice rare in earlier periods but increasingly common in late Sung and Yuan. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shih poetry, chanting poems, setting sunlight, willow catkins, poem inscribed, major painter, hanging scroll Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Lake, Chuang Tzu, Shen Chou, Kao Ch'i, Miscellaneous Poems, New York, Peach Blossom Spring, Chin Nung, Cold Food Festival, Five Lakes, Ch'ien Ch'ien-i, Cheng Hsieh, Hsi Shih, Master Jen, Wen Cheng-ming, Yang Shih-ch'i, Yellow River, Former Seven Masters, T'ao Ch'ien, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wang Wei, Burton Watson, Chang Shih-ch'eng, Che School, Grand Secretary New!
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- Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings by Burton Watson on page 187, page 240, and page 302
- Field of Stones (Oriental Studies No 5) by Richard Edwards on page 165, and Back Matter
- The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu by Chuang Tzu on page 187, and page 240
- Peach Blossom Spring by Fergus M. Bordewich in Front Matter, and page 172
- Thunder Mountain by Uncle River on page 444
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- Chinese Religion: An Anthology of Sources by Deborah Sommer in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Classic of the Way and Virtue: A New Translation of the "Tao-te ching" of Laozi as Interpreted by Wang Bi by Richard John Lynn in Back Matter
- Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume One: From Earliest Times to 1600 (vol. 1) by Wm. Theodore de de Bary in Back Matter
- Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European) by A. K. Ramanujan in Back Matter
- The Classic of Changes and the Columbia I Ching on CD-ROM: Book and CD-ROM Set by Professor Richard John Lynn in Back Matter
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