Readings In Classical Chinese Poetry And Prose

Author : Naiying Yuan,Hai-tao Tang,James Geiss
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780691186559

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Readings in Classical Chinese Poetry and Prose by Naiying Yuan,Hai-tao Tang,James Geiss Pdf

This supplemental volume continues the rigorous standard set forth in the main, three-volume Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader while reinforcing its linguistic lessons from carefully chosen representative works. Comprised of three parts--"Poetry," "Lyrics," and "Prose"--it presents texts, chronologically, that represent the artistic embodiment of China's Confucian and Taoist thought. Two introductions separately describe the structural and formal features of regulated verse and parallel prose; each genre is unique to Chinese literature yet both share common characteristics tempered by the Chinese language. The main text and its four supplementary volumes together represent the most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on the language, literature, philosophy, history, and religion of premodern China. Field-tested and fine-tuned for years in classroom settings by three members of the Chinese Linguistics Project at Princeton University, it is the definitive new resource for students and instructors of classical Chinese language or culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : OCLC:36451382

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Readings in Classical Chinese Poetry and Prose by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : China
ISBN : 2005931446

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Readings in Classical Chinese Poetry and Prose by Anonim Pdf

Author : Zong-qi Cai,Jie Cui,Liu Yucai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780231554787

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How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese by Zong-qi Cai,Jie Cui,Liu Yucai Pdf

This book is at once a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and an innovative textbook for the study of classical Chinese. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Prose: A Guided Anthology, designed for Chinese-language learners. How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese presents more than forty prose works, either excerpts or in full, from antiquity through the Qing dynasty. While teaching readers how to appreciate the rich tradition of Chinese prose in its original form, the book uses these texts to introduce classical Chinese to advanced learners, helping them develop reading comprehension and vocabulary. It offers a systematic guide to classical Chinese grammar and abundant notes on vocabulary, and features an extensive network of notes, exercises, and cross-references. The book includes modern translations of the forty prose works in simplified Chinese, presented alongside the original texts in traditional Chinese. It also includes expert commentaries on each text’s distinctive aesthetic qualities as well as historical and cultural contexts. The book comprises thirty-eight lessons within eight units, organized chronologically to reflect the emergence of major prose genres. It is a major contribution to the teaching and study of classical Chinese language and literature. Audio recordings of all forty texts are available online free of charge.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789629969301

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Chinese Rhyme-Prose by Anonim Pdf

Selected as one of the sixty-five masterpieces for the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works The fu, or rhyme-prose, is a major poetic form in Chinese literature, most popular between the 2nd century b.c. and 6th century a.d. Unlike what is usually considered Chinese poetry, it is a hybrid of prose and rhymed verse, more expansive than the condensed lyrics, verging on what might be called Whitmanesque. The thirteen long poems included here are descriptions of and meditations on such subjects as mountains and abandoned cities, the sea and the wind, owls and goddesses, partings and the idle life. Burton Watson is universally considered the foremost English-language translator of classical Chinese and Japanese literature for the past five decades. Gary Snyder calls him a “great and graceful scholar,” and Robert Aitken has written that “Burton Watson is a superb translator because he knows what literature is.” Here his seemingly effortless translations are accompanied by a comprehensive introduction to the development and characteristics of the fu form, as well as excerpts from contemporary commentary on the genre. A path-breaking study of pre-modern Chinese literature and an essential volume for poetry readers, the book has been out of print for decades. For this edition, Lucas Klein has provided a preface that considers both the fu form and Watson’s extraordinary work as a whole.

Author : YeShell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312834057

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How To Write Classical Chinese Poems - English by YeShell Pdf

An English edition of the thin textbook which teaches readers in an easy and simple way how to write classical Chinese poems for those who have interest in enjoying reading and/or writing classical Chinese poems but have difficulties to understand the explanation of the basic rules in Chinese.

Author : Yunte Huang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021005702

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Shi by Yunte Huang Pdf

Cultural Studies. Poetry. Yunte Huang's SHI: A RADICAL READING OF CHINESE POETRY is as much a bow to traditions of poetics across cultures as it is to linguistic efforts to bridge them. Huang concerns himself with the very act and implicative force of translation, especially when crossing gap in time and geography from classical Chinese poetry to the audience of the contemporary Anglophone West. His effort is described as "halfway between a hermeneutical cartography and a translation...to test and expand the reader's horizon of expectation"--Wai-Lim Yip. "Yunte Huang transforms our sense of 'Chineseness' by replacing the Orientalized scenic and stylistic tropes of traditional translations with multilivel encounters with the Chinese language"--Charles Bernstein.

Author : Lap Lam
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789004538924

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Cultural Transplantation: The Writing of Classical Chinese Poetry in Colonial Singapore (1887‒1945) by Lap Lam Pdf

Classical-style poetry in modern China and other Sinitic-speaking localities is attracting greater attention with the recent upsurge in academic revision of modern Chinese literary history. Using the concept of cultural transplantation, this monograph attempts to illustrate the uniqueness, compatibility, and adaptability of classical Chinese poetry in colonial Singapore as well as its sustained connections with literary tradition and homeland. It demonstrates how the reading of classical Chinese poetry can better our understanding of Singapore’s political, social, and cultural history, deepen knowledge of the transregional relationship between China and Nanyang, and fine-tune, redress, and enrich our perception of Singapore Chinese literature, Sinophone literature, the Chinese diaspora, and global Chinese identity.

Author : Naiying Yuan,Hai-tao Tang,James Geiss
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781400885640

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Classical Chinese by Naiying Yuan,Hai-tao Tang,James Geiss Pdf

Classical Chinese is the most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on the language, literature, philosophy, history, and religion of premodern China. Rigorously and extensively field-tested and fine-tuned for years in classroom settings, it sets a new standard for the field. Originally published in three volumes, Classical Chinese appears here in one convenient and easy-to-use volume. Classical Chinese contains forty selections from texts written between the fifth century BC and the first century AD, during which the classical Chinese language was fully developed and standardized. These passages, which express key themes in Chinese humor, wit, wisdom, moral conviction, and political ideals, are arranged in the order of complexity of the grammatical patterns they exemplify. Uniquely, each text is translated into both modern Chinese and English. A detailed glossary defines unfamiliar terms and names found in the first part of the textbook, and the last section features in-depth grammatical analyses, in which every sentence in the main selections is fully diagrammed to show the grammatical relations between their various parts. Corresponding exercises review and reinforce the materials. Four supplementary volumes—an introduction to grammar, readings in poetry and prose, selected historical texts, and selected philosophical texts—are separately available for use in conjunction with this basic reader. Classical Chinese provides a definitive resource for students and instructors of classical Chinese language and culture.

Author : Jie Cui,Zong-qi Cai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780231156585

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How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook by Jie Cui,Zong-qi Cai Pdf

Designed to work with the acclaimed course text How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology, the How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook introduces classical Chinese to advanced beginners and learners at higher levels, teaching them how to appreciate Chinese poetry in its original form. Also a remarkable stand-alone resource, the volume illuminates China's major poetic genres and themes through one hundred well-known, easy-to-recite works. Each of the volume's twenty units contains four to six classical poems in Chinese, English, and tone-marked pinyin romanization, with comprehensive vocabulary notes and prose poem translations in modern Chinese. Subsequent comprehension questions and comments focus on the artistic aspects of the poems, while exercises test readers' grasp of both classical and modern Chinese words, phrases, and syntax. An extensive glossary cross-references classical and modern Chinese usage, characters and compounds, and multiple character meanings, and online sound recordings are provided for each poem and its prose translation free of charge. A list of literary issues addressed throughout completes the volume, along with phonetic transcriptions for entering-tone characters, which appear in Tang and Song-regulated shi poems and lyric songs.

Author : Various
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547606321

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The Jade Flute: Chinese Poems in Prose by Various Pdf

"The Jade Flute: Chinese Poems in Prose" is a delightful anthology that opens a window into the rich world of Chinese poetry. This collection, comprising various poets and translators, presents classical Chinese poems in prose form, offering both literary beauty and cultural insights. These timeless verses, often steeped in nature and emotion, resonate with readers across cultures. Whether you're well-versed in Chinese literature or new to it, "The Jade Flute" provides an enchanting journey through the evocative landscapes of Chinese poetry.

Author : Tony Barnstone,Chou Ping
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307481474

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The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry by Tony Barnstone,Chou Ping Pdf

Unmatched in scope and literary quality, this landmark anthology spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred poems by more than one hundred thirty poets, in translations–many new and exclusive to the book–by an array of distinguished translators. Here is the grand sweep of Chinese poetry, from the Book of Songs–ancient folk songs said to have been collected by Confucius himself–and Laozi’s Dao De Jing to the vividly pictorial verse of Wang Wei, the romanticism of Li Po, the technical brilliance of Tu Fu, and all the way up to the twentieth-century poetry of Mao Zedong and the post—Cultural Revolution verse of the Misty poets. Encompassing the spiritual, philosophical, political, mystical, and erotic strains that have emerged over millennia, this broadly representative selection also includes a preface on the art of translation, a general introduction to Chinese poetic form, biographical headnotes for each of the poets, and concise essays on the dynasties that structure the book. The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry captures with impressive range and depth the essence of China’s illustrious poetic tradition.

Author : Yugen Wang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170609

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Ten Thousand Scrolls by Yugen Wang Pdf

The Northern Song (960–1126) was one of the most transformative periods in Chinese literary history, characterized by the emergence of printing and an ensuing proliferation of books. The poet Huang Tingjian (1045–1105), writing at the height of this period, both defined and was defined by these changes. The first focused study on the cultural consequences of printing in Northern Song China, this book examines how the nascent print culture shaped the poetic theory and practice of Huang Tingjian and the Jiangxi School of Poetry he founded. Author Yugen Wang argues that at the core of Huang and the Jiangxi School’s search for poetic methods was their desire to find a new way of reading and writing that could effectively address the changed literary landscape of the eleventh century. Wang chronicles the historical and cultural negotiation Huang and his colleagues were conducting as they responded to the new book culture, and opens new ground for investigating the literary interpretive and hermeneutical effects of printing. This book should be of interest not only to scholars and readers of classical Chinese poetry but to anyone concerned with how the material interacts with the intellectual and how technology has influenced our conception and practice of reading and writing throughout history.

Author : Bing Wang
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498535168

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Classical Chinese Poetry in Singapore by Bing Wang Pdf

As the essence of Chinese traditional culture, classical Chinese poetry in Singapore played a very important role in the social and cultural development of Singapore’s Chinese community. Numerous poems depicted the unique scenery of tropical rainforest and the customs with a Nanyang flavor, recorded the various historical events from the colonial era, the World War II to the independent nation, and reflected the poets’ multiple feelings. This book sketches out the brief history of classical Chinese poetry in Singapore over a hundred years, and focuses on the complex identity of poets from different generations, the function of literary societies in the construction of cultural space and the influence of modern media on the development of classical Chinese poetry based on the text interpretation. In addition, the author attempts to define different types of poetry writing using diaspora literature and Sinophone literature. The discussion of these topics will not only expand the research horizon of Chinese literature, but also provide a meaningful reference to the studies of the worldwide Chinese overseas, especially in Southeast Asia.

Author : John Minford,Joseph S. M. Lau
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 1248 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9629960486

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Classical Chinese Literature by John Minford,Joseph S. M. Lau Pdf