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Title How to read Chinese poetry in context : poetic culture from antiquity through the Tang / edited by Zong-qi Cai.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series How to read Chinese literature
How to read Chinese literature.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- THEMATIC CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE HOW TO READ CHINESE LITERATURE SERIES -- PREFACE TO THE VOLUME -- CHRONOLOGY OF HISTORICAL EVENTS -- SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction: The Cultural Role of Chinese Poetry / Cai, Zong-Qi -- PART I: PRE-HAN TIMES -- 1. Poetry and Diplomacy in Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan) / Li, Wai-Yee -- 2. Poetry and Authorship: The Songs of Chu (Chuci) / Owen, Stephen -- PART II: THE HAN DYNASTY -- 3. Empire in Text: Sima Xiangru's "Sir Vacuous/Imperial Park Rhapsody" ("Zixu/Shanglin fu") / Cheng, Yu-Yu / Patterson, Gregory -- 4. Poetry and Ideology: The Canonization of the Book of Poetry (Shijing) During the Han / Cai, Zong-Qi -- 5. Love Beyond the Grave: A Tragic Tale of Love and Marriage in Han China / Lomová, Olga -- PART III: THE SIX DYNASTIES -- 6. Heroes from Chaotic Times: The Three Caos / Lian, Xinda -- 7. The Worthies of the Bamboo Grove / Qian, Nanxiu -- 8. The Poetry of Reclusion: Tao Qian / Berkowitz, Alan -- 9. The Struggling Buddhist Mind: Shen Yue / Goh, Meow Hui -- PART IV: THE TANG DYNASTY -- 10. Knight-Errantry: Tang Frontier Poems / Lin, Tsung-Cheng -- 11. Tang Civil Service Examinations / Luo, Manling -- 12. Tang Women at the Public/Private Divide / Samei, Maija Bell -- 13. Poetry and Buddhist Enlightenment: Wang Wei and Han Shan / Yinchi, Chen / Chen, Jing -- 14. Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon: Li Bai and the Poetics of Wine / Varsano, Paula -- 15. Du Fu: The Poet as Historian / Chen, Jack W. -- 16. Poetry and Literati Friendship: Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen / Wang, Ao -- 17. Li He: Poetry as Obsession / Ashmore, Robert -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Glossary-Index.
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Subject Chinese poetry -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D. -- History and criticism.
Literature and society -- China -- History -- To 1500.
Literature and society.
China.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Cai, Zong-qi, 1955- editor.
Other Form: Print version: How to read Chinese poetry in context. New York : Columbia University Press, [2018] 0231185367 9780231185363 (OCoLC)994314772
ISBN 9780231546126 (electronic book)
0231546122 (electronic book)
9780231185363 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0231185367
0231185375
9780231185370