How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang (Paperback)

Thematic Contents
Preface to the How to Read Chinese Literature Series
Preface to the Volume
Chronology of Historical Events
Symbols and Abbreviations
Introduction: The Cultural Role of Chinese Poetry, by Zong-qi Cai
Part I: Pre-Han Times
1. Poetry and Diplomacy in The Zuo Commentary(Zuozhuan), by Wai-yee Li
2. Poetry and Authorship: The Songs of Chu (Chuci), by Stephen Owen
Part II: The Han Dynasty
3. Empire in Text: Sima Xiangru’s “Sir Vacuous/Imperial Park Rhapsody”(“Zixu/Shanglin fu”), by Yu-yu Cheng and Gregory Patterson
4. Poetry and Ideology: The Canonization of the Book of Poetry (Shijing) During the Han, by Zong-qi Cai
5. Love Beyond the Grave: A Tragic Tale of Love and Marriage in Han China, by Olga Lomova
Part III: The Six Dynasties
6. Heroes from Chaotic Times: The Three Caos, by Xinda Lian
7. The Worthies of the Bamboo Grove, by Nanxiu Qian
8. The Poetry of Reclusion: Tao Qian, by Alan Berkowitz
9. The Struggling Buddhist Mind: Shen Yue, by Meow Hui Goh
Part IV: The Tang Dynasty
10. Knight-Errantry: Tang Frontier Poems, by Tsung-Cheng Lin
11. Tang Civil Service Examinations, by Manling Luo
12. Tang Women at the Public/Private Divide, by Maija Bell Samei
13. Poetry and Buddhist Enlightenment: Wang Wei and Han Shan, by Chen Yinchi and Jing Chen
14. Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon: Li Bai and the Poetics of Wine, by Paula Varsano
15. Du Fu: The Poet as Historian, by Jack W. Chen
16. Poetry and Literati Friendship: Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen, by Ao Wang
17. Li He: Poetry as Obsession, by Robert Ashmore
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Glossary-Index