New Songs from a Jade Terrace: An Anthology of Early Chinese Love Poetry, Translated with Annotations and an Introduction

by Anne Birrell

Book Overview

This book, first published in 1982, was the first translation of the Chinese classic Y?-t-'ai hsin-yung - the unique anthology of love poems, compiled in AD 545. This traces the development of love poetry from the second century BC to its full flowering in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. Dr Birrell's incisive introductory essay provides a concise survey of the historical and literary setting to the poems and explains the conventions governing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367770601
• ISBN13: 9780367770600
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"