Chinese Poetry Meterology (Library of the Century)

Author: Wang Li
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This book is the result of decades of diligent research by the great figure in China's linguistic field, Professor Wang Li. It is considered a classic work in the study of Chinese poetic metrics. The book is divided into two parts: "Introduction" explains the origin and evolution of rhyming language, as well as related knowledge and rules such as tones (pingze), parallelism (duizhang), sentence structures, and grammar; "Main Text" is divided into five chapters, respectively describing regulated verse (jintishi), ancient verse (gushi), ci poetry, qu poetry, vernacular poetry, and European-influenced poetry. This reprinted edition has corrected errors in citations and some typographical mistakes.

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