Chinese poetry metrical theory

Author: Wang Li
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This book is renowned for blending general knowledge of Chinese poetic meter with the author's own research findings. The content progresses from general to more advanced knowledge, and from the research of predecessors to the author's personal insights. As a teaching reference book, it may still be of some help for specialized courses at the senior undergraduate level. This book is a classic work on the study of Chinese poetic meter, the result of decades of diligent exploration by the great figure in the field of linguistics, Professor Wang Li. It is divided into two parts: "Introduction" explains the origin and evolution of rhyming language, as well as related knowledge and rules such as tones (), parallelism (), sentence structures, and grammar; "Main Text" is divided into five chapters, covering regulated verse (), ancient verse (), ci poetry, qu poetry, vernacular poetry, and European-influenced poetry. This reprinted edition has corrected errors in citations and some typographical mistakes.