A01=Xue Tao
Amy Lowell
Ancient China
Anecdote
Appellation
Assonance
Author_Xue Tao
Barbarian
Buddhism
Calligraphy
Category=DCF
Chengdu
Chinese poetry
Chongqing
Classic of Filial Piety
Confucianism
Couplet
Courtesan
Cress (novel)
Edmund Keeley
English poetry
Epigram
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eq_biography-true-stories
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Fairy
Flattery
Gentlewoman
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Independent woman
Internal rhyme
Jade Emperor
Lament
Leonard Nathan
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Literature
Liu Yuxi
Malapropism
Mary Ann Caws
Ming dynasty
My Country
Naiad
Nanzhao
New Poems
Nickname
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Philip Sherrard
Poetic diction
Poetry
Pun
Qutang Gorge
Rainer Maria Rilke
Robert van Gulik
Scholar-official
Sexual slang
Shallows
Sichuan Basin
Silver age
Simile
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Song Yu
Sonnet
Surname
Tang dynasty
Tang poetry
Taoism
The Concubine (novel)
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Xue Tao
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Yu Xuanji
Zheng (state)
Product details
- ISBN 9780691014340
- Weight: 170g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 Mar 1987
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Xue Tao (A.D. 768-831) was well known as a poet in an age when all men of learning were poets--and almost all women were illiterate. As an entertainer and official government hostess, she met, and impressed, many of the most talented and powerful figures of her day. As a maker of beautiful paper and a Taoist churchwoman, she maintained a life of independence and aesthetic sensibility. As a writer, she crrated a body of work that is by turns deeply moving, amusing, and thought-provoking. Drawing knowledgeably on a rich literary tradition, she created images that here live again for the contemporary reader of English. This bilingual edition contains about two-thirds of Xue Tao's extant poems. The translations are based on accurate readings of the originals and extensive research in both Chinese and Japanese materials. The notes at the end of the book explain allusions and place the poems in the context of medieval Chinese culture and its great literary heritage, while the opening essay introduces Xue Tao's work and describes her unusual life history.
