1st Edition
Fifty Songs from the Yüan Fifty Songs from the Yüan: Poetry of 13th Century China
152 Pages
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Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Fifty Songs from the Yüan (the English Translation and the Original Chinese Text) 3. Appendices to the Fifty Poems 4. Remarks on the Transliterated and Word-by-Word Texts 5. Biographical Sketches of the Poets
Biography
Richard F.S. Yang and Charles R. Metzger
