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Elegies of Chu

Author : Nicholas Morrow Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192550446
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Elegies of Chu written by Nicholas Morrow Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chinese poetry. Because the elegies contain passionate expressions of political protest as well as shamanistic themes of magic spells and wandering spirits, they present an alternative face of early Chinese culture; one that does not align with orthodox Confucianism. This translation employs literary English devices in order to emphasise the original structure of these Chinese poems. It also examines the extraordinarily vivid diction of the source texts, including of onomatopoeia, ornate descriptions, exotic flowers, dramatic landscapes, metaphors and startling similes. This translation will be based on the original anthology compiled in the Han dynasty by Wang Yi (2nd century CE), and contains a selection of poems that were collected from the 3rd century BCE through the Han dynasty. The anthology provides readers with an understanding of Chinese literature and its evolution from free-spirited, mythico-religious songs to the more formal, polished style of the Han court.

Three Elegies of Chʻu

Author : Geoffrey R. Waters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Three Elegies of Chʻu written by Geoffrey R. Waters and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Three Elegies of Ch'u

Author : Geoffrey R. Waters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608018676
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Three Elegies of Ch'u written by Geoffrey R. Waters and published by . This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature

Author : William H. Nienhauser
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253329837
Total Pages : 1108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature written by William H. Nienhauser and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A vertitable feast of concise, useful, reliable, and up-to-dateinformation (all prepared by top scholars in the field), Nienhauser's now two-volumetitle stands alone as THE standard reference work for the study of traditionalChinese literature. Nothing like it has ever been published." --Choice The second volume to The Indiana Companion to TraditionalChinese Literature is both a supplement and an update to the original volume. VolumeII includes over 60 new entries on famous writers, works, and genres of traditionalChinese literature, followed by an extensive bibliographic update (1985-1997) ofeditions, translations, and studies (primarily in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and German) for the 500+ entries of Volume I.

楚辞

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787508522043
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book 楚辞 written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elegies of Chu

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192550439
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Elegies of Chu written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Songs of Chu

Author : Yuan Qu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231544650
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Songs of Chu written by Yuan Qu and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sources show Qu Yuan (?340–278 BCE) was the first person in China to become famous for his poetry, so famous in fact that the Chinese celebrate his life with a national holiday called Poet's Day, or the Dragon Boat Festival. His work, which forms the core of the The Songs of Chu, the second oldest anthology of Chinese poetry, derives its imagery from shamanistic ritual. Its shaman hymns are among the most beautiful and mysterious liturgical works in the world. The religious milieu responsible for their imagery supplies the backdrop for his most famous work, Li sao, which translates shamanic longing for a spirit lover into the yearning for an ideal king that is central to the ancient philosophies of China. Qu Yuan was as important to the development of Chinese literature as Homer was to the development of Western literature. This translation attempts to replicate what the work might have meant to those for whom it was originally intended, rather than settle for what it was made to mean by those who inherited it. It accounts for the new view of the state of Chu that recent discoveries have inspired.

The Li Sao

Author : 屈原
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Li Sao written by 屈原 and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

Author : Stephen Cushman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400841429
Total Pages : 1678 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics written by Stephen Cushman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 1678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important poetry reference for more than four decades—now fully updated for the twenty-first century Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated for the twenty-first century. Compiled by an entirely new team of editors, the fourth edition—the first new edition in almost twenty years—reflects recent changes in literary and cultural studies, providing up-to-date coverage and giving greater attention to the international aspects of poetry, all while preserving the best of the previous volumes. At well over a million words and more than 1,000 entries, the Encyclopedia has unparalleled breadth and depth. Entries range in length from brief paragraphs to major essays of 15,000 words, offering a more thorough treatment—including expert synthesis and indispensable bibliographies—than conventional handbooks or dictionaries. This is a book that no reader or writer of poetry will want to be without. Thoroughly revised and updated by a new editorial team for twenty-first-century students, scholars, and poets More than 250 new entries cover recent terms, movements, and related topics Broader international coverage includes articles on the poetries of more than 110 nations, regions, and languages Expanded coverage of poetries of the non-Western and developing worlds Updated bibliographies and cross-references New, easier-to-use page design Fully indexed for the first time

The Culture of Sex in Ancient China

Author : Paul R. Goldin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824824822
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Sex in Ancient China written by Paul R. Goldin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-10-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of sex was central to early Chinese thought. Discussed openly and seriously as a fundamental topic of human speculation, it was an important source of imagery and terminology that informed the classical Chinese conception of social and political relationships. This sophisticated and long-standing tradition, however, has been all but neglected by modern historians. In The Culture of Sex in Ancient China, Paul Rakita Goldin addresses central issues in the history of Chinese attitudes toward sex and gender from 500 B.C. to A.D. 400. A survey of major pre-imperial sources, including some of the most revered and influential texts in the Chinese tradition, reveals the use of the image of copulation as a metaphor for various human relations, such as those between a worshiper and his or her deity or a ruler and his subjects. In his examination of early Confucian views of women, Goldin notes that, while contradictions and ambiguities existed in the articulation of these views, women were nevertheless regarded as full participants in the Confucian project of self-transformation. He goes on to show how assumptions concerning the relationship of sexual behavior to political activity (assumptions reinforced by the habitual use of various literary tropes discussed earlier in the book) led to increasing attempts to regulate sexual behavior throughout the Han dynasty. Following the fall of the Han, this ideology was rejected by the aristocracy, who continually resisted claims of sovereignty made by impotent emperors in a succession of short-lived dynasties. Erudite and immensely entertaining, this study of intellectual conceptions of sex and sexuality in China will be welcomed by students and scholars of early China and by those with an interest in the comparative development of ancient cultures.

Poetry and Painting in Song China

Author : Alfreda Murck
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684170338
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Poetry and Painting in Song China written by Alfreda Murck and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of imperial China, the educated elite used various means to criticize government policies and actions. During the Song dynasty (960-1278), some members of this elite found an elegant and subtle means of dissent: landscape painting. By examining literary archetypes, the titles of paintings, contemporary inscriptions, and the historical context, Alfreda Murck shows that certain paintings expressed strong political opinions--some transparent, others deliberately concealed. She argues that the coding of messages in seemingly innocuous paintings was an important factor in the growing respect for painting among the educated elite and that the capacity of painting’s systems of reference to allow scholars to express dissent with impunity contributed to the art’s vitality and longevity.

Chinese Literature

Author : Dan Yao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521186781
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Literature written by Dan Yao and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible, illustrated introduction takes the reader through the rich Chinese literary tradition from ancient times to the twentieth century, exploring poetry, drama, opera, novels, short stories, the modern media and the authors who created these cultural treasures.

Selected Elegies of the State of Chu

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787119098876
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Selected Elegies of the State of Chu written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Organization of Distance

Author : Lucas Klein
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004375376
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Organization of Distance written by Lucas Klein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Organization of Distance argues that the impression of Chineseness in Chinese poetry is a product of translation, simultaneously nativizing and foreignizing from sources abroad and in the past.

Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol.I)

Author : David R. Knechtges
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004191275
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol.I) written by David R. Knechtges and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide, this work offers a wealth of information on writers, genres, literary schools and terms of the Chinese literary tradition from earliest times to the seventh century C.E.

Eminent Chinese of the Qing Period

Author : Arthur W. Hummel Sr.
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1614728496
Total Pages : 1100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Eminent Chinese of the Qing Period written by Arthur W. Hummel Sr. and published by Berkshire Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eminent Chinese of the Qing Period was first developed under the auspices of the US Library of Congress during World War II. This much-loved work, edited by Arthur W. Hummel Sr., was meticulously compiled and unique in its scope, and quickly became the standard biographical reference for the Qing dynasty, which lasted from 1644 to 1911/2. Amongst the contributors are John King Fairbank, Têng Ssû-yü, L. Carrington Goodrich, C. Martin Wilbur, Fêng Chia-shêng, Knight Biggerstaff, and Nancy Lee Swann. The 2018 Berkshire edition contains the original eight hundred biographical sketches as well as the original front and back matter, including the preface by Hu Shih, a scholar who had been China’s ambassador to the United States. An introduction by Pamela Crossley places this classic work in historical context, and discusses its origins, authors and editors, themes, style, and contemporary relevance. Chinese names in English have been converted to the pinyin transcription system (changing the book’s title from Ch’ing to Qing), but the traditional Chinese characters have been retained. Additional materials added by Berkshire include a general bibliography, a Wade-Giles to pinyin conversion table, and a list of Qing dynasty emperors. Arthur W. Hummel Sr. (1884–1975) was a missionary, sinologist, and the first director of the Orientalia Division at the Library of Congress. Pamela Crossley is a professor at Dartmouth College and a specialist on the Qing empire and modern Chinese history, as well as the software author and scholarly editor of the ECCP Reader, a digital companion to the original Eminent Chinese of the Ch’ing Period.

Classical Chinese Literature: From antiquity to the Tang dynasty

Author : John Minford
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231096775
Total Pages : 1252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book Classical Chinese Literature: From antiquity to the Tang dynasty written by John Minford and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains English translations of Chinese writings drawn from throughout a period of four hundred years, including poems, drama, fiction, songs, biographies, and early works of philosophy and history; arranged chronologically and by genre, with introductory quotes and comments.