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Paul Rouzer
In this first serious study of Hanshan ( Cold Mountain ), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618-907)…
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This volume analyzes the representation of gender and desire in elite, male-authored literary texts in China dating from roughly 200 B.C. until 1000 A.D.
Forty lessons introducing students to the basic patterns and structures of Classical Chinese are taken from a number of pre-Han and Han texts selected to give students a grounding in…
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This complete bilingual edition (Chinese and English) provides a readable as well as the most accurate translation of the body of poems attributed to the hermit poets Hanshan, Shide, and…
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Paul F. Rouzer
A study of the poetry of Wen Tingyun, a major writer of the Late Tang, containing translations of more than 60 of Wen’s poems, most of which appear in English…
Paul Rouzer,Wei Wang
Volume 1 edited by Christopher M.B. Nugent.
Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of…
Suitable for students, scholars, and poets on various aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more, this book reflects changes in literary and cultural…
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The Classical Moment is a reexamination of the concept of a supreme moment in the literatures of Greece, Mesopotamia, India, China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Taking the case of Greece…
