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The Late Poems of Meng Chiao
Late in life, China's Meng Chiao (A.D. 751-841) developed an experimental poetry that anticipated similar landmarks in the modern Western tradition by a millennium. His late work is singular not only for its bleak introspection and "avant-garde" form but also for its dimensionsa truly major work, perhaps the most radical in the Chinese tradition. Renowned translator David Hinton gives us the first volume of Meng Chiao's poetry to appear in English.
After Meng Jiao
The poems in this book are not translations, rather they may be considered as variations on and responses to the poetry of Meng Jiao. The poems in this book are written in response to translations of the extant oeuvre of Meng Jiao (made by the author with Amy Wong and Hilda Tam).
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The Poetry of He Zhu (1052-1125)
The Northern Song poet He Zhu is best known for his lyrics (ci) but also produced shi poetry of subtlety, wit, and feeling. This study examines the latter as a response to the options available to a late-eleventh century writer in the pentametrical and heptametrical forms of Ancient Verse, Regulated Verse, and Quatrains. Numerous comparisons are made with Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Du Fu, and other important writers. In a major advance over previous methodologies, the author uses a clear system of metrical notation to show how sound patterns reveal the poet's artistic and emotional intentions. This innovation and the author's other meticulous explorations of He Zhu's artistry allow us to experience Chinese poetry as never before. From the reader's report: "not just an excellent study of an individual poet but also a model of reading the language of classical Chinese poetry. [..] opens up a world of interpretive territory heretofore seldom explored."
The Organization of Distance
The Organization of Distance argues that the impression of Chineseness in Chinese poetry is a product of translation, simultaneously nativizing and foreignizing from sources abroad and in the past.
Supreme domination
In the vast territory, fierce beasts are rampant, and foreigners are rampant. Hunting captive humans such as pigs and dogs for blood food, the Terran is declining, and the disaster of genocide is imminent.
The Discourse on Foxes and Ghosts
The fiction of Xu works across boundaries, fusing Daoist traditions with the pessimism of Western nihilism.
Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity
This book traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries by examining three critical categories of women: courtesans, concubines, and faithful wives. It shows how the intersection and mutual influence of these groups—and of male discourses about them—transformed ideas about family relations and the proper roles of men and women. Courtesan culture had a profound effect on Song social and family life, as entertainment skills became a defining feature of a new model of concubinage, and as entertainer-concubines increasingly became mothers of literati sons. Neo-Confucianism, the new moral learning of the Song, was significantly shaped by this entertainment c...
The Road to East Slope
Su Shi (1037-1101) is the greatest poet of the Song Dynasty, a man whose writings and image defined some of the enduring central themes of the Chinese cultural tradition. Su Shi was not only the best poet of his time, he was also a government official, a major prose stylist, a noted calligrapher, an avid herbalist, a dabbler in alchemy, and a broadly learned scholar. The author shows how this complex personality was embodied in Su Shi's work and traces the evolution of his poems from juvenilia to the poems written in exile in Huangzhou, where Su settled on a farm at East Slope.
Alien Kind
The China of the Ming and Qing dynasties was well populated with foxes, shape-changing creatures who transgressed the boundaries of species, gender and the metaphysical realm. Each section of this book traces a particular boundary violated by the fox and examines how manoeuvres across that boundary change over time.
