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Voices from Early China

Author : Geoffrey Sampson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527555224
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Voices from Early China written by Geoffrey Sampson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese “Book of Odes” (Shijing) is a collection of 305 poems dating from between 1000 and 600 B.C., and, thus, is one of the earliest literary works in any living language. It offers vignettes of life in an almost unimaginably remote society; many of the poems have great charm, for instance, some are authored by women about their love problems. (For such early literature it is remarkable how many poems are by women.) Over the centuries the content of the Odes has become obscured by developments in the Chinese language, by prudishness and pomposity on the part of commentators, and because earlier translators were often more interested in philological technicalities than in the poems’ human significance. This book cuts through these obscurities to present a new translation into straightforward, down-to-earth English. The Odes are the earliest rhyming poetry in any language, and they make use of alliteration and assonance to achieve their poetic effects, but changes in the sounds of modern Chinese have destroyed all this speech-music. This book restores it: alongside the author’s translations, it spells the Chinese wording out in the sounds used by the original poets—something which has only recently become possible through advances in the reconstruction of Old Chinese speech.

Book of Odes (Shi-King)

Author : Launcelot Cranmer-Byng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book of Odes (Shi-King) written by Launcelot Cranmer-Byng and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cranmer-Byng's translation of the classic anthology of Confucius.

Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River

Author : Ye Luying
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9888341944
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River written by Ye Luying and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River is an ancient Chinese poem created by Cao Zhi, a writer living in the state of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period (c. 220-280 CE). In his tale, Cao Zhi is returning from the capital to his own land when he stops at the Luo River for a rest, where he sees a vision of the goddess so powerful that he instantly falls in love with her. Cao sees a nymph of peerless beauty “as elegant as a startled swan and supple as a swimming dragon”. Though he’s swept away by her ethereal beauty, it’s a love that isn’t meant to be. With its high production values and amazingly-detailed-multi-page foldout spreads, this is a special book that will entice art lovers of all ages.

The Shi King, the Old "Poetry Classic" of the Chinese

Author : William Jennings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shi King, the Old "Poetry Classic" of the Chinese written by William Jennings and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Book of Songs

Author : Joseph Roe Allen
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802134776
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Songs written by Joseph Roe Allen and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph R. Allen's new edition of The Book of Songs restores Arthur Waley's definitive English translations to the original order and structure of the two-thousand-year-old Chinese text. One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs that antiquity has left us. Arthur Waley's translations, now supplemented by fifteen new translations by Allen, are superb; the songs speak to us across millennia with remarkable directness and power. Where the other Confucian classics treat "outward things, deeds, moral precepts, the way the world works", Stephen Owen tells us in his foreword, The Book of Songs is "the Classic of the human heart and the human mind".

Ode to China

Author : Reuben Tom Kee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992124908
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book Ode to China written by Reuben Tom Kee and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Words and Images

Author : Alfreda Murck
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870996045
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Words and Images written by Alfreda Murck and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1991 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May of 1985, an international symposium was held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in honor of John M. Crawford, Jr., whose gifts of Chinese calligraphy and painting have constituted a significant addition to the Museum's holdings. Over a three-day period, senior scholars from China, Japan, Taiwan, Europe, and the United States expressed a wide range of perspectives on an issue central to the history of Chinese visual aesthetics: the relationships between poetry, calligraphy, and painting. The practice of integrating the three art forms-known as san-chiieh, or the three perfections-in one work of art emerged during the Sung and Yuan dynasties largely in the context of literati culture, and it has stimulated lively critical discussion ever since. This publication contains twenty-three essays based on the papers presented at the Crawford symposium. Grouped by subject matter in a roughly chronological order, these essays reflect research on topics spanning two millennia of Chinese history. The result is an interdisciplinary exploration of the complex set of relationships between words and images by art historians, literary historians, and scholars of calligraphy. Their findings provide us with a new level of understanding of this rich and complicated subject and suggest further directions for the study of Chinese art history. The essays are accompanied by 255 illustrations, some of which reproduce works rarely published. Chinese characters have been provided throughout the text for artists names, terms, titles of works of art and literature, and important historical figures, as well as for excerpts of selected poetry and prose. A chronology, also containing Chinese characters, and an extensive index contribute to making this book illuminating and invaluable to both the specialist and the layman.

Young China

Author : Mingwei Song
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175607
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Young China written by Mingwei Song and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of youth is among the most dramatic stories of modern China. Since the last years of the Qing dynasty, youth has been made a new agent of history in Chinese intellectuals’ visions of national rejuvenation through such tremendously popular notions as “young China” and “new youth.” The characterization of a young protagonist with a developmental story has also shaped the modern Chinese novel. Young China takes youth as a central literary motif that was profoundly related to the ideas of nationhood and modernity in twentieth-century China. A synthesis of narrative theory and cultural history, it combines historical investigations of the origin and development of the modern Chinese youth discourse with close analyses of the novelistic construction of the Chinese Bildungsroman, which depicts the psychological growth of youth with a symbolic allusion to national rejuvenation. Negotiating between self and society, ideal and action, and form and reality, such a narrative manifests as well as complicates the various political and cultural symbolisms invested in youth through different periods of modern Chinese history. In this story of young China, the restless, elusive, and protean image of youth both perpetuates and problematizes the ideals of national rejuvenation.

Beethoven in China

Author : Jindong Cai
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1760142301
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven in China written by Jindong Cai and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, students returning from abroad introduced Beethoven to China. The composer's perseverance in the face of adversity and his musical genius resonated in a nation searching for a way forward. Beethoven remained a durable part of Chinese life in the decades that followed, becoming an icon to intellectuals, music fans and party cadres alike, playing a role in major historical events from the May Fourth Movement to the normalisation of US-China relations. Jindong Cai, whose love for the musician began during the Cultural Revolution, and culture journalist Sheila Melvin tell the compelling story of Beethoven and the Chinese people.

Odes to Kien Long

Author : Peter Pindar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Odes to Kien Long written by Peter Pindar and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Language, Politics and Identity in Taiwan

Author : Hui-Ching Chang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135046352
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Language, Politics and Identity in Taiwan written by Hui-Ching Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the move by Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalist Party Kuomingtang (KMT) to Taiwan after losing the Chinese civil war to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the late 1940s, and Chiang’s subsequent lifelong vow to reclaim the mainland, "China " has occupied—if not monopolized—the gaze of Taiwan, where its projected images are reflected. Whether mirror image, shadow, or ideal contrast, China has been, and will continue to be, a key reference point in Taiwan's convoluted effort to find its identity. Language, Politics and Identity in Taiwan traces the intertwined paths of five sets of names Taiwan has used to name China since the KMT came to Taiwan in 1949: the derogatory "Communist bandits"; the ideologically focused "Chinese Communists"; the seemingly neutral geographical designators "mainland" and "opposite shore/both shores"; and the ethnic and national label "China," with the official designation, "People's Republic of China." In doing so, it explores how Taiwanese identities are constituted and reconstituted in the shifting and switching of names for China; in the application of these names to alternative domains of Taiwanese life; in the waning or waxing of names following tides of history and polity; and in the increasingly contested meaning of names. Through textual analyses of historical archives and other mediated texts and artifacts, the chapters chart Taiwan's identity negotiation over the past half century and critically evaluate key interconnections between language and politics. This unique book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Taiwan studies, Chinese politics, communication studies and linguistics.

Push Open the Window

Author : Qingping Wang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781556593307
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Push Open the Window written by Qingping Wang and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic and powerful cultural exchange between the world's superpowers.

City of Heavenly Tranquility

Author : Jasper Becker
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1783017856
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book City of Heavenly Tranquility written by Jasper Becker and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling, eye-opening account of a fascinating and decisive moment in Chinese history, packed with evocative stories. Jasper Becker tells the story of why and how China's leaders set about to destroy and rebuild one of the world's greatest cities and how many of the residents tried to stop it and protect their great architectural legacy.

Odes to Kie'n Long, the present Emperor of China; with the Quakers, a tale; To a fly drowned in a bowl of punch; Ode to Macmanus, Townsend, and Jealous, the thief-takers; To Cælia.-To a Pretty Milliner.-To the Fleas of Teneriffe.-To Sir William Hamilton.-To my Candle, &c. &c. &c. By Peter Pindar, Esq

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Author : Peter Pindar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Odes to Kie'n Long, the present Emperor of China; with the Quakers, a tale; To a fly drowned in a bowl of punch; Ode to Macmanus, Townsend, and Jealous, the thief-takers; To Cælia.-To a Pretty Milliner.-To the Fleas of Teneriffe.-To Sir William Hamilton.-To my Candle, &c. &c. &c. By Peter Pindar, Esq written by Peter Pindar and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Drifting Boat

Author : Jerome P. Seaton
Publisher : White Pine Press
ISBN 13 : 9781877727375
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book A Drifting Boat written by Jerome P. Seaton and published by White Pine Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. This anthology gathers together over 1500 years of Chinese Zen (Ch'an) poetry from the earliest writing, including the Hsin Hsin Ming written by the 3rd Patriarch, to the poetry of monks in this century. Poets include Wang Wei, Li Po, Tu Fu, Yuan Mei, the crazy hermits Han-shan and Shih-te, as well as many anonymous monks and hermits.

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

Author : Stephen R. Platt
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307271730
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom written by Stephen R. Platt and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping account of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles--a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China. The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led by a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and brother of Jesus. The Taiping rebels drew their power from the poor and the disenfranchised, unleashing the ethnic rage of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers. This homegrown movement seemed all but unstoppable until Britain and the United States stepped in and threw their support behind the Manchus: after years of massive carnage, all opposition to Qing rule was effectively snuffed out for generations. Stephen R. Platt recounts these events in spellbinding detail, building his story on two fascinating characters with opposing visions for China's future: the conservative Confucian scholar Zeng Guofan, an accidental general who emerged as the most influential military strategist in China's modern history; and Hong Rengan, a brilliant Taiping leader whose grand vision of building a modern, industrial, and pro-Western Chinese state ended in tragic failure. This is an essential and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the movement that, a century and a half ago, might have launched China on an entirely different path into the modern world.

The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien

Author : Tao Chien
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619321440
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien written by Tao Chien and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T'ao Ch'ien, (365 - 427, C.E.), one of the most revered poets in classical Chinese literature, is presented in a lucid translation with an introduction. "David Hinton is one of the most impressive of the younger translators of classical Chinese poetry.... His renderings are varied and imaginative while remaining faithful to the spirit of the original."--Burton Watson