Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650: The Chin, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties
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Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650: The Chin, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties
By (Author) Kojiro Yoshikawa
By (author) John Timothy Wixted
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: general
Literary studies: poetry and poets
895.11
Short-listed for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1991
Physical Properties
Hardback
236
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
482g
Description
Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry offers the only historical survey, in any language, of this important span of Chinese poetry. Written by the foremost Japanese sinologist of this century, and translated here in a lucid analogue to his famous prose style, the work provides a brief but comprehensive review of the period's literary history, a sket
Reviews
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991 "Like the adage about firewood, this book warms twice. First there is the warmth of Yoshikawa Kojiro's spry and versatile mind, and then there is John Wixted's lovely and obviously loving translation of those thoughts into English... [This] book is a delightful and timely reminder of what the love of literature is all about."--Joseph R. Allen, The Journal of Asian Studies
