The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry: Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing Dynasties (1279-1911) / Edition 1

by Jonathan Chaves

Overview

Jonathan Chaves makes available a vast store of rich and significant poems by both major and minor poets from China's last three dynasties. Featured are poems from the Yuan dynasty, which range from quiet landscape depictions to expansive, freely expressive works; from the Ming era, notable for its stylistic quality and its diversity; and from tte Ch'ing dynasty, known for poets who, by refusing to fit into any category, helped continue the fascinating richness of late Ming cultural life. Annotated with biographical sketches of the poets and illustrated with their paintings, this collection is an unprecedented anthology of exceptionally well translated Chinese poetry up to the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231061490
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	11/23/1988
Series:	Translations from the Asian Classics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	481
Product dimensions:	8.24(w) x 9.28(h) x 0.12(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jonathan Chaves is Associate Professor of Chinese at the George Washington University. He is the author of Pilgrim of the Clouds, Heaven My Blanket, Earth My Pillow, and Mei Yaoch'en and the Development of Early Sung Poetry (published by Columbia University Press).

Table of Contents

List of Plates
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Yuan
Ming
Ch'ing
List of Poets with Editions Used
Index of Poets

Editorial Reviews

Chaves' anthology breaks new ground.A vast poetic corpus, which has suffered relative neglect in China and Japan, let alone the West, is opened by Chaves to the general reader for the first time.

Times Literary Supplement