31. Chinese Poetry Through the Ages
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"Chinese Poetry Through the Ages: An Enlarged Anthology", translations by William Dolby. This volume was published in 2012 but with the original translations undoubtedly made between 1980- 2000
This work represents the 31st of 33 of the Chinese Culture Series.
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In China, poetry has been the pinnacle of literary activity. It was used in examinations to select men for the highest posts in the land. It was the core of stage drama, and the pride of story-telling. It was employed by philosophy and religion, and in the court's grave rituals and the common populace's aphorisms. For emperors and beggars it was taken for granted as being an important mode in the gamut of means of verbal expression.Poetry was virtually everywhere, at the top and bottom of society, for solemn occasions, for saucy and vulgar humour, for love - in some settings "composing poetry" could be a synonym for "having a love affair", for friendship, for partings, sorrows, and indeed for each and every aspect of life. Hundreds of thousands of ancient Chinese poems survive, and poetry is increasingly re-asserting itself in modern Chinese life.
List of Books in the Chinese Culture Series
- Kuan Han-Ch'ing: China's first Playwright
- Bring on the Wine and other Poems by Li Pai
- Chinese Poetry Through The Ages: an Anthology
- Chinese Short Stories - Spanning 2000 Years
- History of early Chinese Ch'ü-aria Poetry
- Sayings of Confucius and his Students
- Ma Chih-yüan's Complete San-ch'ü-aria Poems
- Wang Shi-Fu, Author of China's Most Famous Play
- West Wing Chantefable by Tung Chieh-yüan
- Sir Old, the Chinese Classic of Taoism
- Peking Opera
- Yüan Dynasty Variety Plays
- Mr Ma and son in London
- Songs Classic: China’s earliest poetry anthology
- Classical Chinese textbook
- Three Hundred T'ang Dynasty Poems
- Yüan Dynasty Variety Play dramas: 100 stories
- Chinese Folk-tales
- Chinese Humour: an Anthology
- Gold-producing Mansion
- Chinese Riddles
- Chinese Elliptical Idioms (hsieh-hou-yu)
- West Wing, China's most famous drama
- Washing Silk, a drama by Liang Ch'en-yi (1520-ca.1580)
- Chinee Drama Poems
- Chinese Prose: Biographies, Prefaces, Anecdotes ...
- Chinese Myths
- Chinese Prose: Biographies, Prefaces, Anecdotes ...
- Lasting-life Palace-hall by Hung Sheng (1654-1704)
- Chinese non-drama aria-poems, an anthology (VOLUME ONE)
- Chinese Poetry Through the Ages
- Dictionary of Chinese Idioms, Proverbs and Sayings
- Anthology of Chinese non-drama aria-poems (VOLUME TWO)