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How to Read Chinese Poetry

How to Read Chinese Poetry Paperback / softback - 2007

by Cai

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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Leads us through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. This volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of shi, sao, fu, ci, and qu poems. It highlights th
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  • Title How to Read Chinese Poetry
  • Author Cai
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 456
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
  • Date 2007-12-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780231139410_inp
  • ISBN 9780231139410 / 0231139411
  • Weight 2.39 lbs (1.08 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.9 x 8.57 x 0.97 in (27.69 x 21.77 x 2.46 cm)
  • Ages 22 to UP years
  • Grade levels 17 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Chinese poetry - History and criticism, Chinese poetry - Translations into English
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007023263
  • Dewey Decimal Code 895.110

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2008, Page 309

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).