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Author Birrell, Anne

Title New Songs from a Jade Terrace An Anthology of Early Chinese Love Poetry, Translated with Annotations and an Introduction
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (405 p.)
Series Routledge Library Editions: Chinese Literature and Arts Ser. ; v.16
Routledge Library Editions: Chinese Literature and Arts Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Chronological Table -- Map: The Southern Dynasties -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Early Folk-songs and Ballads (First and Second Centuries AD) -- Anon. Eight Old Poems -- Bittersweet -- Cold Winds -- There is a Time -- Fierce Winter's Cold Air -- Joy of Love Quilt -- The Bronze Censer -- Come Back Home -- My vow -- Anon. Six Old Folk-songs -- Mulberry up the Lane -- A Grand House -- The Perfect Wife
Don't Make Eyes at me ! -- Today a Keg of Wine -- Two White Geese -- Anon. Nine Miscellaneous Poems -- The Sound of Strings and Song -- A Melody so Sad -- On, on, Ever on and on -- Despair will Make me Old -- Green, Green Riverside Grass -- Stored Memories -- How Time Passed -- Without a Word -- Bright Moon White -- Li Yen-nien -- A Song -- ?Su Wu -- If i Die -- ?Hsin Yen-nien -- The Imperial Guards Officer -- ?Lady Pan -- Regret -- Sung Tzu-hou -- Flowers Fall -- Anon. A Ditty of the Han Era -- Half Across her Forehead ! -- Chang Heng -- Like Sounds -- Ch'in Chia -- To my Wife, Three Poems
Hsü Shu -- Response to my Husband, Ch'in Chia -- ?Ts'ai Yung -- Watering Horses at a Long Wall Hole -- Ch'en Lin -- Watering Horses at a Long Wall Hole -- Hsü Kan -- Bedroom Longing -- Lack-lustre -- Fan Ch'in -- We Pledged Our Love -- Anon. A Peacock Southeast Flew -- Chapter Two: Poets of the Wei and Chin Dynasties (Third and Fourth Centuries) -- Ts'ao P'ei -- A Newly Wed Knight Parts from his Bride -- A Dull Ache -- Empress Chen -- ?Wang Sung -- Bedcurtains, Two Poems -- Ts'ao Chih -- A Wanderer's Wife -- A Weaving Wife -- A Hint of Shadow -- Solitude -- In a Land South -- A Beautiful Woman
Sharing a Quilt -- Floating Alga -- The Deserted Wife -- Ts'ao Jui -- Dull Nights -- In Close Embrace -- Juan Chi -- We'll Never Forget -- Gay Boys -- Fu Hsüan -- Green, Green Riverside Grass -- Pity me! -- There's a Girl -- Dawn Song -- Bright Moon -- Autumn Orchid -- How Does he Ask After me? -- A Pure Wife -- Chang Hua -- Tour of Duty -- Vigil -- Vacant Shadow -- My Tiny Heart -- Marsh Orchid -- Last Sweetness -- He Keeps Away -- P'an Yüeh -- Homebound -- Homeward -- I Mourn her Passing -- Bereavement -- Shih Ch'ung -- Wang Chao-chün's Farewell -- Tso Ssu -- A Dainty Girl
Chapter Three: Poets of the Chin Dynasty (Third and Fourth Centuries) -- Lu Chi -- Sad Echoes Sweet -- Harmonies Clear and Sad -- I Dream -- River Without a Bridge -- Soft, Soft, Sweet River Grass -- At Orchid Time Departed -- Deep Longing -- Farewell to Home ! -- Estranged -- Broken Threads -- Palace Ladies -- Magic Haunts -- Along the Bank -- Lu Yün -- Four Letter-poems Between Husband and Wife -- Chang Hsieh -- No Passing Footsteps -- Yang Fang -- By your Side -- Cling Close Together -- An Empty Room -- Crystalline -- Fine Tree -- Wang Chien -- Seventh Night -- Li Ch'ung -- Parody of a Lover
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Ts'ao P'i
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000582932
1000582930