Appreciation of Famous Poems from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties

Author: Zhou Xiaotian, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features:
1. This book collects approximately 1200 works from over 340 poets of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties.
2. The arrangement of writers in the main text follows the chronological order of their eras. Works by the same poet are organized based on their separate or collected editions, with variant texts chosen for their excellence without additional collation notes.
3. This book uses standardized simplified characters, with traditional or variant characters used when ambiguity arises.
4. Difficult words in poems are generally explained within the text; if they disrupt the flow, they are annotated at the end.
5. This book primarily adopts traditional chronology, with corresponding anno Domini years in parentheses (the word "year" is omitted).
6. This book includes a bibliography of Yuan, Ming, and Qing poetry for reference. The poems collected span from the Jin and Yuan dynasties to the modern era.