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chA 1/4 poetic form
Chinese art
Chinese literature
Chinese lyrics
Chinese poetry
Chinese poets
Chinese vernacular poetry
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historical Chinese song translation
literary translation methods
medieval Chinese culture
Mongol rule China
Yuan dynasty literature
Product details
- ISBN 9781032248837
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 May 2022
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book, first published in 1967, gives us a rich sampling of ch’ü, the characteristic poem of the time of Yüan, when China was under Mongol rule. The ch’ü was a popular form of poetry in the sense that although it was written by literati, they wrote in the vernacular rather than in Classical Chinese. Each poem was written to be sung to an already popular tune. In addition to the ‘final translations’, the steps by which the translators proceeded from a literal, character-by-character translation through several intermediate stages to the final version are revealed in detail.
Richard F.S. Yang and Charles R. Metzger
