Download e-book for iPad: How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology by Zong-qi Cai

In this "guided" anthology, specialists lead scholars in the course of the significant genres and eras of chinese language poetry from antiquity to the trendy time. the quantity is split into 6 chronological sections and lines greater than one hundred forty examples of the simplest shi, sao, fu, ci, and qu poems. A complete creation and huge thematic desk of contents spotlight the thematic, formal, and prosodic positive aspects of chinese language poetry, and every bankruptcy is written by way of a student who focuses on a selected interval or style. Poems are provided in chinese language and English and are followed by means of a tone-marked romanized model, an evidence of chinese language linguistic and poetic conventions, and suggested analyzing innovations. Sound recordings of the poems can be found on-line at no cost. those targeted beneficial properties facilitate an excessive engagement with chinese language poetical texts and support the reader derive aesthetic excitement and perception from those works as it is easy to from the original.

Contributors: Robert Ashmore (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Zong-qi Cai; Charles Egan (San Francisco State); Ronald Egan (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara); Grace Fong (McGill); David R. Knechtges (Univ. of Washington); Xinda Lian (Denison); Shuen-fu Lin (Univ. of Michigan); William H. Nienhauser Jr. (Univ. of Wisconsin); Maija Bell Samei; Jui-lung Su (National Univ. of Singapore); Wendy Swartz (Columbia); Xiaofei Tian (Harvard); Paula Varsano (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Fusheng Wu (Univ. of Utah)