The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry

The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry
Title The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry PDF eBook
Author Stephen Owen
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 392
Release 2006
Genre Education
ISBN

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This study of poetry composed between the end of the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E. examines extant material synchronically, as if it were not historically arranged. It also considers how scholars of the late fifth and early sixth centuries selected this material and reshaped it to produce the standard account of classical poetry.

The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry

The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry
Title The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry PDF eBook
Author Stephen Owen
Publisher BRILL
Pages 381
Release 2020-05-11
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1684174287

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"Over the centuries, early Chinese classical poetry became embedded in a chronological account with great cultural resonance and came to be transmitted in versions accepted as authoritative. But modern scholarship has questioned components of the account and cast doubt on the accuracy of received texts. The result has destabilized the study of early Chinese poetry. This study adopts a double approach to the poetry composed between the end of the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E. First, it examines extant material from this period synchronically, as if it were not historically arranged, with some poems attached to authors and some not. By setting aside putative differences of author and genre, Stephen Owen argues, we can see that this was “one poetry,” created from a shared poetic repertoire and compositional practices. Second, it considers how the scholars of the late fifth and early sixth centuries selected this material and reshaped it to produce the standard account of classical poetry. As Owen shows, early poetry comes to us through reproduction—reproduction by those who knew the poem and transmitted it, by musicians who performed it, and by scribes and anthologists—all of whom changed texts to suit their needs."

Readings in Chinese Literary Thought

Readings in Chinese Literary Thought
Title Readings in Chinese Literary Thought PDF eBook
Author Stephen Owen
Publisher BRILL
Pages 683
Release 2020-10-26
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1684170079

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This dual-language compilation of seven complete major works and many shorter pieces from the Confucian period through the Ch’ing dynasty will be indispensable to students of Chinese literature. Stephen Owen’s masterful translations and commentaries have opened up Chinese literary thought to theorists and scholars of other languages.

The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry

The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry
Title The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry PDF eBook
Author Stephen Owen
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 394
Release 2006
Genre Education
ISBN

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This study of poetry composed between the end of the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E. examines extant material synchronically, as if it were not historically arranged. It also considers how scholars of the late fifth and early sixth centuries selected this material and reshaped it to produce the standard account of classical poetry.

The Late Tang

The Late Tang
Title The Late Tang PDF eBook
Author Stephen Owen
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2009
Genre Chinese poetry
ISBN 9780674033283

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Owen analyzes the redirection of poetry following the deaths of the major poets of the High and Mid-Tang and the rejection of their poetic styles. In the Late Tang, the poetic past was beginning to assume the form it would have for the next millennium--a repertoire of styles, genres, and the voices of past poets.

The Inner Quarters and Beyond

The Inner Quarters and Beyond
Title The Inner Quarters and Beyond PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 445
Release 2010-07-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9004190260

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Only recently has the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) been rediscovered. Through these valuable texts, we apprehend in ways not possible earlier the complexity of women’s experiences in the inner quarters and their varied responses to challenges facing state and society. Writing in many genres, women engaged with topics as varied as war, travel, illness, love, friendship, female heroism, and religion. Drawing on a library of newly digitized resources, this volume's eleven chapters describe, analyze, and theorize these materials. They question previous assumptions about women’s lives and abilities, open up new critical space in Chinese literary history and offer new perspectives on China’s culture and society. “This volume rewrites the history of Chinese women’s literature by taking a truly inter-disciplinary (instead of merely multi-disciplinary) approach. In so doing, it ends up illuminating the centrality of writing women to the social, political, and intellectual lives of the Chinese empire from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.” Prof. Dorothy Ko, Barnard College, Columbia University, author of Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (California, 2005).

The Poetry of Cao Zhi

The Poetry of Cao Zhi
Title The Poetry of Cao Zhi PDF eBook
Author Robert Joe Cutter
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 237
Release 2021-03-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1501506978

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This book provides a translation of the complete poems and fu of Cao Zhi (192–232), one of China’s most famous poets. Cao Zhi lived during a tumultuous age, a time of intrepid figures and of bold and violent acts that have captured the Chinese imagination across the centuries. His father Cao Cao (155–220) became the most powerful leader in a divided empire, and on his death, Cao Zhi’s elder brother Cao Pi (187–226) engineered the abdication of the last Han emperor, establishing himself as the founding emperor of the Wei Dynasty (220–265). Although Cao Zhi wanted to play an active role in government and military matters, he was not allowed to do so, and he is remembered as a writer. The Poetry of Cao Zhi contains in its body one hundred twenty-eight pieces of poetry and fu. The extant editions of Cao Zhi’s writings differ in the number of pieces they contain and present many textual variants. The translations in this volume are based on a valuable edition of Cao’s works by Ding Yan (1794–1875), and are supplemented by robust annotations, a brief biography of Cao Zhi, and an introduction to the poetry by the translator.