The Poetry Of Cao Zhi

Author : Robert Joe Cutter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501506970

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The Poetry of Cao Zhi by Robert Joe Cutter Pdf

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.

Author : Hugh Dunn
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780898751697

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Cao Zhi by Hugh Dunn Pdf

Cho Zhi (192-323) was the son of Cao Cao (155-220), the famous -- sometimes thought infamous -- adventurer, general and politician at the end of the Later Han dynasty (25-220). Cao Zhi was a younger son but had such great talent that there was at one time a prospect that he might become his father's heir. If that had happened he could have been a king. However, his elder brother, Cao Pi (187-226), became the heir and the two brothers' rivalry over this question had a major effect on Cao Zhi's life.Their rivalry was probably aggravated by Cao Pi's jealousy of Cao Zhi's brilliance and greater poetic gifts, and possibly over a woman who, according to some stories, inspired one of Cao Zhi's greatest poems. After Cao Cao's death, China became formally divided into the Three Kingdoms which gave their name to that period of Chinese history. Many of the traditional stories in early Chinese novels and plays derived from that period. But, in all the stirring doings at the time -- the "Robin Hood" age of China -- Cao Zhi played little part. With all his gifts, his faults of character and the distrust of his brother, by now King of Wei, frustrated his chance of giving real service to the state. Many of his poems reflect that frustration.Cao Zhi is, however, a far from unimportant figure in Chinese literary history. He lived at a time of division, of change and of constant warfare and popular distress. Buddhism was spreading fast and new poetical forms were coming into use. Cao Zhi is one of the first figures in Chinese history to be remembered as a poet alone, and not as an emperor, statesman or general who also wrote poetry. He also wrote essays which contained some of the earliest literary criticism of writers of his age. He was also renowned as a calligrapher -- and as a bon viveur. His life was in large part a tragedy of wasted gifts -- but he does not lack touches of comedy.

Author : Songsheng Chang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Chinese poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025694154

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Generic Transformation from Yuefu to Gushi by Songsheng Chang Pdf

Author : Zhi Cao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034814462

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Worlds of Dust and Jade by Zhi Cao Pdf

Author : Zong-qi Cai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231546126

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How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context by Zong-qi Cai Pdf

How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty (618–907). It aims to break down barriers—between language and culture, poetry and history—that have stood in the way of teaching and learning Chinese poetry. Not only a primer in early Chinese poetry, the volume demonstrates the unique and central role of poetry in the making of Chinese culture. Each chapter focuses on a specific theme to show the interplay between poetry and the world. Readers discover the key role that poetry played in Chinese diplomacy, court politics, empire building, and institutionalized learning; as well as how poems shed light on gender and women’s status, war and knight-errantry, Daoist and Buddhist traditions, and more. The chapters also show how people of different social classes used poetry as a means of gaining entry into officialdom, creating self-identity, fostering friendship, and airing grievances. The volume includes historical vignettes and anecdotes that contextualize individual poems, investigating how some featured texts subvert and challenge the grand narratives of Chinese history. Presenting poems in Chinese along with English translations and commentary, How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context unites teaching poetry with the social circumstances surrounding its creation, making it a pioneering and versatile text for the study of Chinese language, literature, history, and culture.

Author : David R. Knechtges,Eugene Vance
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780295802367

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Rhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court Culture by David R. Knechtges,Eugene Vance Pdf

Key imperial and royal courts--in Han, Tang, and Song dynasty China; medieval and renaissance Europe; and Heian and Muromachi Japan--are examined in this comparative and interdisciplinary volume as loci of power and as entities that establish, influence, or counter the norms of a larger society. Contributions by twelve scholars are organized into sections on the rhetoric of persuasion, taste, communication, gender, and natural nobility. Writing from the perspectives of literature, history, and philosophy, the authors examine the use and purpose of rhetoric in their respective areas. In Rhetoric of Persuasion, we see that in both the third-century court of the last Han emperor and the fourteenth-century court of Edward II, rhetoric served to justify the deposition of a ruler and the establishment of a new regime. Rhetoric of Taste examines the court’s influence on aesthetic values in China and Japan, specifically literary tastes in ninth-century China, the melding of literary and historical texts into a sort of national history in fifteenth-century Japan, and the embrace of literati painting innovations in twelfth-century China during a time when the literati themselves were out of favor. Rhetoric of Communication considers official communications to the throne in third-century China, the importance of secret communications in Charlemagne’s court, and the implications of the use of classical Chinese in the Japanese court during the eighth and ninth centuries. Rhetoric of Gender offers the biography of a former Han emperor’s favorite consort and studies the metaphorical possibilities of Tang palace plaints. Rhetoric of Natural Nobility focuses on Dante’s efforts to confirm his nobility of soul as a poet, surmounting his non-noble ancestry, and the development of the texts that supported the political ideologies of the fifteenth-century Burgundian dukes Philip the Good and Charles the Bold.

Author : Ye Luying
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9789888341948

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Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River by Ye Luying Pdf

The Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River is an ancient Chinese poem created by Cao Zhi, a writer living in the state of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period (c. 220-280 CE). In his tale, Cao Zhi is returning from the capital to his own land when he stops at the Luo River for a rest, where he sees a vision of the goddess so powerful that he instantly falls in love with her. Cao sees a nymph of peerless beauty “as elegant as a startled swan and supple as a swimming dragon”. Though he’s swept away by her ethereal beauty, it’s a love that isn’t meant to be. With its high production values and amazingly-detailed-multi-page foldout spreads, this is a special book that will entice art lovers of all ages.

Author : Donald Holzman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429761492

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Immortals, Festivals, and Poetry in Medieval China by Donald Holzman Pdf

First published in 1998, the papers in this second volume by Donald Holzman are concerned with the themes of religion and poetry and song in early medieval China. Religion is to the fore in the first two sections, dealing with Daoist immortals and their cult, as reflected in poetic works of the first three centuries ad, with songs used in religious ceremonies, and with the origins and history of the cold food festival. The last group of articles includes a major study of the poems of Ji Kang (223-262) as well as other poetry of the 4th-5th centuries, and an analysis of the changing image of the merchant from the 4th to the 9th centuries.

Author : Stephen Owen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684174287

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The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry by Stephen Owen Pdf

"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."

Author : John Minford,Joseph S. M. Lau
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 1248 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9629960486

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

Author : Fusheng Wu
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0791473708

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Written at Imperial Command by Fusheng Wu Pdf

Explores both the literary features and historical context of poetry written for imperial rulers during China’s early medieval period.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X002604514

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Songs of the Immortals by Anonim Pdf

Author : Zong-qi Cai,Zong-qu Cai
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780472038053

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The Matrix of Lyric Transformation by Zong-qi Cai,Zong-qu Cai Pdf

Pentasyllabic poetry has been a focus of critical study since the appearance of the earliest works of Chinese literary criticism in the Six Dynasties period. Throughout the subsequent dynasties, traditional Chinese critics continued to examine pentasyllabic poetry as a leading poetic type and to compile various comprehensive anthologies of it. The Matrix of Lyric Transformation enriches this tradition, using modern analytical methods to explore issues of self-expression and to trace the early formal, thematic, and generic developments of this poetic form. Beginning with a discussion of the Yüeh-fu and ku-shih genres of the Han period, Cai Zong-qi introdues the analytical framework of modes from Western literary criticism to show how the pentasyllabic poetry changed over time. He argues that changing practices of poetic composition effected a shift from a dramatic mode typical of folk compositions to a narrative mode and finally to lyric and symbolic modes developed in literati circles.

Author : Victor H. Mair,Zhenjun Zhang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781350337237

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Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament by Victor H. Mair,Zhenjun Zhang Pdf

Bathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions of ancient peoples, poems of mourning and texts of lament stand out in classical Chinese literature as brilliant and unique. Composed and celebrated over 3000 years, they are central to the Chinese literary tradition but have been largely unknown to English readers. Including over 100 major pieces by leading literary figures from 800 BCE – 1800, this is the first English anthology of classic Chinese poems of mourning and texts of sacrificial offering. With annotated translations by leading scholars and reading guides accompanying each piece, this book reveals a powerful literary heritage to students and serious readers of Chinese literature, history and civilization.

Author : Xiaofei Tian
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170920

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The Halberd at Red Cliff by Xiaofei Tian Pdf

"The turn of the third century CE—known as the Jian’an era or Three Kingdoms period—holds double significance for the Chinese cultural tradition. Its writings laid the foundation of classical poetry and literary criticism. Its historical personages and events have also inspired works of poetry, fiction, drama, film, and art throughout Chinese history, including Internet fantasy literature today. There is a vast body of secondary literature on these two subjects individually, but very little on their interface.The image of the Jian’an era, with its feasting, drinking, heroism, and literary panache, as well as intense male friendship, was to return time and again in the romanticized narrative of the Three Kingdoms. How did Jian’an bifurcate into two distinct nostalgias, one of which was the first paradigmatic embodiment of wen (literary graces, cultural patterning), and the other of wu (heroic martial virtue)? How did these largely segregated nostalgias negotiate with one another? And how is the predominantly male world of the Three Kingdoms appropriated by young women in contemporary China? The Halberd at Red Cliff investigates how these associations were closely related in their complex origins and then came to be divergent in their later metamorphoses."