Abstract:
Water Mirror: Ancient Chinese Poetry is a new English translation of classical Chinese poems, dating from 600 BCE to the Nineteenth Century. It presents the writings of 170 poets. 356 poems were selected from different sources: A Compilation of Ancient Poetry Within Sight, Poems of a Thousand Masters and Three Hundred Tang Poems, including collections of poems from the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties. This translation attempts to preserve the essence and identity of the originals by providing rhymes and following the rhyming patterns chosen, when appropriate.