Fifty Songs from the Yu¿an

Fifty Songs from the Yu¿an: Poetry of 13th Century China
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-24885-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 245 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Chinese Literature and Arts

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Metzger, Charles R.

Yang, Richard F. S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Richard F.S. Yang and Charles R. Metzger