Washing Silk: The Life And Selected Poetry Of Wei Chuang (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)

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Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)

Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)

Wei Chuang was a prolific Tang dynasty poet. He not only wrote in the shih form (poems in the old and new styles, the latter having strict rules of meter, rhyme, and euphony), but also was one of two literati founders of the tz'u (lyric) tradition, based on a popular song form. This tripartite study provides a thoroughgoing picture of his life and work.The book begins with the first detailed biography of Wei Chuang in a Western language, drawn both from historical sources and Wei's poetry. The shih poems are intensely autobiographical and provide insight into Wei's own experience and into the situation in China at the end of the ninth century. A second section analyzes the poetry, demonstrating that Wei's tz'u cannot be understood without reference to his shih compositions, a new approach to the totality of Wei's work. Finally, this volume presents translations, briefly annotated, of 110 shih poems, including his major narrative poem, The Lament of the Lady of Chin, and almost all the tz'u attributed to him, constituting more than a third of Wei Chuang's extant poetry. The translations, while hewing close in meaning to their Chinese originals, have considerable value as poems in English.This work offers information that is useful to those interested in the literature, history, and general culture of medieval China. The translations bring to modern readers of English poetry the pleasures of becoming acquainted with a complex and innovative voice from the Chinese past.From the Back CoverThe book begins with the first detailed biography of Wei Chuang in a Western language, drawn both from historical sources and Wei's poetry. The shih poems are intensely autobiographical and provide insight into Wei's own experience and into the situation in China at the end of the ninth century.About the AuthorRobin D. S. Yates is Assistant Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University.

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AuthorYates, Robin D. S.
Bindinghardcover
Languageenglish
EditionAnnotated
ISBN-10674947754
ISBN-139780674947757
PublisherHarvard University Press
Publication Year10-05-1988

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