How to read Chinese poetry Workbook

348 Pages·2012·20.72 MB·English

by  Cai

How to Read Chinese Poetry
Workbook
How to Read Chinese Poetry
Workbook
Jie Cui and Zong-qi Cai
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The Library of Congress has catalogued Zong-qi Cai, How to Read
Chinese Poetry: A Guided
Anthology as follows: How to read Chinese poetry: a guided anthology /
edited by Zong-qi Cai.
p. cm.
Chinese and English.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-231-13940-3 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-231-13941-0
(paper : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-231-51188-9 (electronic) 1. Chinese
poetry—History and criticism. 2. Chinese poetry—Translations into
English. I. Cai, Zong-qi. II. Title.
PL2308.H65 2007
895.1'1009—dc22
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Table of Contents
Preface
Symbols and Abbreviations

Love: The Voice of Men
P01 “Guan, Guan,” Cry the Ospreys (anon.)
P02 Willow Branch (Liu Yuxi)
P03 Untitled (Li Shangyin)
P04 To the Tune “Southern Tune,” No. 1 (anon.)
Exercises
Love: The Voice of Women
P05 To the Tune “Southern Tune,” No. 2 (anon.)
P06 There Is One I Love (anon.)
P07 Prolonged Longing (Bai juyi)
P08 To the Tune “A Twig of Plum Blossom” (Li
Qingzhao)
P09 To the Tune “Deeply Drunk in the East
Wind” Spring Passions (Xu Zaisi)
Exercises
Fields and Gardens
P10 Returning to Live on the Farm, No. 1 (Tao
Qian)
P11 On Drinking Wine, No. 5 (Tao Qian)
P12 Visiting My Old Friend’s Farmstead (Meng
Haoran)
P13 Written on Master Huyin’s Wall, No. 1
(Wang Anshi)
Exercises
Landscape: Excursions
P14 An Outing to the Eastern Field (Xie Tiao)
P15 Zhongnan Mountain (Wang Wei)
P16 To the Tune “West River Moon”:
An Evening Journey on the Path to Huangsha (Xin Qiji)
P17 An Outing to Villages West of the Mountains
(Lu You)
Exercises
Landscape: Grand Scenes
P18 The Yellow Crane Tower (Cui Hao)
P19 Watching the Waterfall of Mount Lu (Li Bai)
P20 Four Quatrains, No. 3 (Du Fu)
P21 Dreaming Heaven (Li He)
P22 A Quatrain on the Spring South of the
Yangtze (Du Mu)
Exercises
Landscape: Chan (Zen) Vision
P23 Written for the Meditation Lodge (Chang
Jian)
P24 Visiting the Xiangji Temple (Wang Wei)
P25 The Deer Fence (Wang Wei)
P26 The Lodge in the Bamboo Grove (Wang Wei)
P27 Calling-Bird Brook (Wang Wei)
Exercises
Landscape: Random Sketches
P28 The Dawn of a Spring Day (Meng Haoran)
P29 Sitting Alone in the Jingting Mountain (Li
Bai)
P30 River Snow (Liu Zongyuan)
P31 Drinking on the Lake, No. 1
(Su Shi)
P32 A Small Pond (Yang Wanli)
P33 To the Tune of “Sky-Clear Sand”: Autumn
(Bai Pu)
Exercises
Landscape: A Source of Wisdom
P34 Climbing Crane Tower (Wang Zhihuan)
P35 Departing Baidi in the Morning (Li Bai)
P36 Written on the Wall of the West Wood Temple
(Su Shi)
P37 Two Poems Written After Reading,
No. 1 (Zhu Xi)
Exercises
Parting
P38 Nineteen Old Poems, No. 1 (anon.)
P39 A Weicheng Tune (Wang Wei)
P40 Sending off Meng Haoran (Li Bai)
P41 To Wang Lun (Li Bai)
P42 Song of a Traveling Son (Meng Jiao)
Exercises
Sojourns of the Wandering Men
P43 An Overnight Stay by the Jiande River (Meng
Haoran)
P44 The Jiang and Han Rivers (Du Fu)
P45 Nightly Mooring at the Maple Bridge (Zhang Ji)
P46 Early Morning Journey in the Shang
Mountains (Wen Tingyun)
P47 To the Tune “Sky-Clear Sand”: Autumn
Thoughts (Ma Zhiyuan)
Exercises
Frontiers and Wars
P48 Songs of Liangzhou, No. 1 (Wang Zhihuan)
P49 Following the Army (Wang Changling)
P50 Setting Out for the Frontiers (Wang Changling)
P51 Two Songs of Liangzhou, No. 1 (Wang
Han)
P52 Upon Hearing of the Recapture of
Henan and Hebei by the Government Army (Du Fu)
P53 Crossing the Sea of Loneliness (Wen
Tianxiang)
Exercises
Homesickness
P54 Random Notes Upon Returning to My
Hometown (He Zhizhang)
P55 On the Double Ninth Festival:
Thinking of My Brothers in Shangdong (Wang Wei)
P56 Miscellaneous Poems, No. 2 (Wang Wei)
P57 Quiet Night Thoughts (Li Bai)
P58 Crossing the Sanggan River (Jia Dao)
P59 Night Ram: A Poem Sent to the North (Li
Shangym)
Exercises
Plaints of Young Women (I)
P60 Nineteen Old Poems, No. 2 (anon.)
P61 Spring Lament (Jin Changxu)
P62 Untitled (Li Shangym)
P63 To the Tune “On the Water Clock at Night”
(Wen Tingyun)
P64 To the Tune “Buddha-Like Barbarian” (Wen
Tingyun)
Exercises
Plaints of Young Women (II)
P65 To the Tune “Audience at Golden Gate” (Wei
Zhuang)
P66 To the Tune “Crows Call at Night” (Li Yu)
P67 To the Tune “Butterflies Lingering Over
Flowers” (Ouyang Xiu)
P68 Spring at Wuling (Li Qingzhao)
Exercises
Plaints of Palace Ladies
P69 Jade Stairs Resentment (Xie Tiao)
P70 Lament of the Jade Stairs (Li Bai)