Five hundred years of chinese poetry, 1150-1650: the chin, yuan, and ming dynasties : the chin, yuan, and ming dynasties /

Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry offers the only historical survey, in any language, of this important span of Chinese poetry. Written by the foremost Japanese sinologist of this century, and translated here in a lucid analogue to his famous prose style, the work provides a brief but comprehensi...

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Main Authors: Yoshikawa, Kojiro
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Wixted, John Timothy
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton, N.J. :
Publication Dates: [1990]
©1990
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: Course Book.
Series: Princeton legacy library
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400860463
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Summary: Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry offers the only historical survey, in any language, of this important span of Chinese poetry. Written by the foremost Japanese sinologist of this century, and translated here in a lucid analogue to his famous prose style, the work provides a brief but comprehensive review of the period's literary history, a sketch of its political and social history in relation to literature, and a rendering of more than one hundred and fifty poems.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN: 9781400860463
Index Number: PL2322
CLC: I207.224
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Translator's Preface --
Introduction --
Chapter 1. CHINESE POETRY OF THE LATER IMPERIAL DYNASTIES --
Chapter 2. CHIN DYNASTY POETRY: REACTION TO THE MONGOL INCURSION, 1150-1250 --
Chapter 3. SOUTHERN SUNG LOYALIST POETRY, 1250-1300 --
Chapter 4. THE MATURATION OF YUAN POETRY, 1300-1350 --
Chapter 5. THE EARLY MING, 1350-1400 --
Chapter 6. THE MIDDLE MING (I): STAGNATION AND REVIVAL, 1400-1500 --
Chapter 7. THE MIDDLE MING (II) : THE AGE OF OLD PHRASEOLOGY, 1500-1600 --
Chapter 8. THE LATE MING, 1600-1650 --
Afterword --
Index.