History of Chinese Literature. (II)

Author: You Guoen
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: The ancient Chinese literature, with a long history, developed to a new stage of comprehensive prosperity during the Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties periods. The literary scene of the entire era witnessed an unprecedented flourishing of diverse styles, a colorful and vibrant atmosphere unseen since the Warring States period. Among these developments, poetry reached a highly mature golden age. In less than three hundred years of the Tang Dynasty, the number of poems left behind was more than two to three times greater than those of previous dynasties. This book introduces the literature of the Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties periods, with detailed content including:
- Poetry of the Sui and early Tang periods;
- High Tang landscape and pastoral poets;
- High Tang frontier poets;
- The great romantic poet Li Bai;
- The great realistic poet Du Fu;
- Early middle Tang poets;
- Realistic poet Bai Juyi and the New Yuefu Movement;
- The classical prose movement and Han Yu's essays;
- Other middle Tang poets;
- Late Tang literature;
- Tang Dynasty legends.