New Songs from a Jade Terrace: An Anthology of Early Chinese Love Poetry, Translated with Annotations and an Introduction

by Anne Birrell

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This book, first published in 1982, was the first translation of the Chinese classic Y?-t-'ai hsin-yung - the unique anthology of love poems, compiled in AD 545. This traces the development of love poetry from the second century BC to its full flowering in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. Dr Birrell's incisive introductory essay provides a concise survey of the historical and literary setting to the poems and explains the conventions governing...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0367770601

ISBN13:9780367770600

Release Date:May 2022

Publisher:Routledge

Length:400 Pages

Weight:1.64 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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