Bouncing Pearls: Ancient Chinese Poetry

by:

Kwan-Hung Chan (Author)

ISBN: 0-7414-6335-0 ©2010
Price: $11.95
Book Size: 5.5'' x 8.5'' , 162 pages
Category/Subject: POETRY / General

Bouncing Pearls presents over 250 important ancient Chinese poems translated into English. Through a faithful translation with appropriate rhymes, the essence and identity of the originals are preserved.

Abstract:
Bouncing Pearls: Ancient Chinese Poetry is a new English translation of classical Chinese poems, dating from 600 BCE to the Eighteenth Century. It presents the writings of about 110 poets. Over 250 poems were selected from different sources, especially Poems of a Thousand Masters and Three Hundred Tang Poems. The former, aimed less at moralizing, may do more in revealing the intrinsic values of the ancient Chinese poets. This translation attempts to preserve the essence and identity of the originals by providing rhymes and following the rhyming patterns chosen, when appropriate

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