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How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology

Edited by Zong-qi Cai

Paper, 456 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13941-0
$32.50 / £22.50

January, 2008
Cloth, 456 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13940-3
$74.50 / £51.50

Thematic Contents

A Note on How to Use This Anthology

Acknowledgments

Major Chinese Dynasties

List of Symbols

Introduction: Major Aspects of Chinese Poetry

Zong-qi Cai

Part 1 Pre-Qin Times

1. Tetrasyllabic Shi Poetry: The Book of Poetry (Shijing)

William H. Nienhauser

2. Sao Poetry: The Lyrics of Chu (Chuci)

Fusheng Wu

Part 2 The Han Dynasty

3. Fu Poetry: An Ancient-Style Rhapsody (Gufu)

David R. Knechtges

4. Shi Poetry: Music Bureau Poems (Yuefu)

Jui-lung Su

5. Pentasyllabic Shi Poetry: The "Nineteen Old Poems"

Zong-qi Cai

Part 3 The Six Dynasties

6. Pentasyllabic Shi Poetry: Landscape and Farmstead Poems

Wendy Swartz

7. Pentasyllabic Shi Poetry: New Topics

Xiaofei Tian

Part 4 The Tang Dynasty

8. Recent-Style Shi Poetry: Pentasyllabic Regulated Verse (Wuyan Lüshi)

Zong-qi Cai

9. Recent-Style Shi Poetry: Heptasyllabic Regulated Verse (Qiyan Lüshi)

Robert Ashmore

10. Recent-Style Shi Poetry: Quatrains (Jueju)

Charles Egan

11. Ancient-Style Shi Poetry: A Revival

Paula Varsano

Part 5 The Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty

12. Ci Poetry: Short Song Lyrics (Xiaoling)

Maija Bell Samei

13. Ci Poetry: Long Song Lyrics (Manci)

Xinda Lian

14. Ci Poetry: Long Song Lyrics on Objects (Yongwu Ci)

Shuen-fu Lin

15. Shi Poetry: Ancient and Recent Styles

Ronald Egan

Part 6 The Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties

16. Qu Poetry: Song Poems (Sanqu) of the Yuan Dynasty

Xinda Lian

17. Shi Poetry of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Grace S. Fong

18. A Synthesis: Rhythm, Syntax, and Vision of Chinese Poetry

Zong-qi Cai

Phonetic Transcriptions of Entering-Tone Characters

Abbreviations of Primary Texts

Contributors

Glossary-Index

Related Subjects

About the Author

Zong-qi Cai is professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Matrix of Lyric Transformation: Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllabic Poetry (Michigan, 1996) and Configurations of Comparative Poetics: Three Perspectives on Western and Chinese Literary Criticism (Hawai'i, 2002), and is the editor of A Chinese Literary Mind: Culture, Creativity, and Rhetoric in Wenxin dialong (Stanford, 2001) and Chinese Aesthetics: The Ordering of Literature, the Arts, and the Universe in the Six Dynasties (Hawai'i, 2004).

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