How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology

Edited by Zong-qi Cai

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Paper, 456 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13941-0
$35.00 / £24.00

December, 2007
Cloth, 456 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13940-3
$85.00 / £58.50

Web Features

• Listen to sound recordings of the poems.
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Related Subjects

• Asian Literature
• East Asian Studies
• Poetry

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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