How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang by Cai, Zong-Qi
How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang by Cai, Zong-Qi

How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang

How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry,...
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Author: Zong-Qi Cai
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Language: English
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How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang by Cai, Zong-Qi

How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang

$181.20
How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang by Cai, Zong-Qi

How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang

$181.20
Author: Zong-Qi Cai
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty (618-907). It aims to break down barriers--between language and culture, poetry and history--that have stood in the way of teaching and learning Chinese poetry. Not only a primer in early Chinese poetry, the volume demonstrates the unique and central role of poetry in the making of Chinese culture.

Each chapter focuses on a specific theme to show the interplay between poetry and the world. Readers discover the key role that poetry played in Chinese diplomacy, court politics, empire building, and institutionalized learning; as well as how poems shed light on gender and women's status, war and knight-errantry, Daoist and Buddhist traditions, and more. The chapters also show how people of different social classes used poetry as a means of gaining entry into officialdom, creating self-identity, fostering friendship, and airing grievances. The volume includes historical vignettes and anecdotes that contextualize individual poems, investigating how some featured texts subvert and challenge the grand narratives of Chinese history. Presenting poems in Chinese along with English translations and commentary, How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context unites teaching poetry with the social circumstances surrounding its creation, making it a pioneering and versatile text for the study of Chinese language, literature, history, and culture.



Author: Zong-Qi Cai
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 02/20/2018
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780231185370
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Zong-qi Cai is professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and chair professor of Chinese literature at Lingnan University of Hong Kong. His books on Chinese poetry include How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology (2007) and How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook (2012), both from Columbia University Press, as well as The Matrix of Lyric Transformation: Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllabic Poetry (1996).
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