Three Hundred Tang Poems - Hardcover
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Peter Harris (Editor), Peter Harris (Translator)Series:Everyman's Library Pocket PoetsPublish date:2009-03-31Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9780307269737ISBN-10:307269736UPC:9780307269737Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Asian, Anthologies (multiple authors)Size:6.44 x 4.24 x 0.81 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SCR2F1AMAX
A new translation of a beloved anthology of poems from the golden age of Chinese culture--a treasury of wit, beauty, and wisdom from many of China's greatest poets. These roughly three hundred poems from the Tang Dynasty (618-907)--an age in which poetry and the arts flourished--were gathered in the eighteenth century into what became one of the best-known books in the world, and which is still cherished in Chinese homes everywhere. Many of China's most famous poets--Du Fu, Li Bai, Bai Juyi, and Wang Wei--are represented by timeless poems about love, war, the delights of drinking and dancing, and the beauties of nature. There are poems about travel, about grief, about the frustrations of bureaucracy, and about the pleasures and sadness of old age. Full of wisdom and humanity that reach across the barriers of language, space, and time, these poems take us to the heart of Chinese poetry, and into the very heart and soul of a nation.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9780307269737ISBN-10:307269736UPC:9780307269737Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Asian, Anthologies (multiple authors)Size:6.44 x 4.24 x 0.81 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SCR2F1AMAX
PETER HARRIS graduated from Oxford in classical Chinese and has a Ph.D. in Asian history from Monash. He lived and worked for many years in different parts of Asia including China, where he was representative of the Ford Foundation and a visiting professor at Nanjing University. He is now a Senior Fellow in the China Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Volumes he edited for Everyman's Library include The Travels of Marco Polo, The Art of War, Zen Poems, Three Hundred Tang Poems, and Hanshan: Cold Mountain Poems.
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