Appreciation of Ancient Chinese Poems Written by Mao Zedong

Author: Zhong Wenhan / Zhu Runhao / Xing Guohong, Editors
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: Many readers greatly enjoy reading and appreciating classical Chinese poetry inscribed by Mao Zedong—it is a feast for the eyes. However, they often struggle to decipher the cursive script, especially for less common works, making it difficult to understand their content, artistic achievements, and why Mao Zedong favored these poems. This book is carefully compiled to meet readers' needs, selecting one hundred and thirty classical Chinese poems inscribed by Mao Zedong. It briefly introduces the life stories of the poets, annotates difficult characters and allusions in the poems, explains the background, ideological content, and artistic techniques of the poems, and introduces Mao Zedong's appreciation and evaluation of some of the poems, helping readers better read, understand, and appreciate them. The book includes poems from the Wei and Jin periods to the Qing dynasty, featuring outstanding verses and aria lyrics from novels and operas. In terms of arrangement, the poems are ordered according to the chronological order of the original poets. For authors who lived during the transition between dynasties, they are categorized into different dynasties based on their primary activities and affiliations.