New Collection of a Thousand Poems (Chinese-English Parallel)

Author: Yuan Xingpei
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: To promote the fine traditional culture of our motherland, to provide patriotic education for children and adolescents, to cultivate their noble moral sentiments and aesthetic tastes, and to enlighten their life wisdom, we have selected this book and named it "New Selected Thousand Poems." The selected poems total 152, arranged in the order of five-character quatrains, seven-character quatrains, five-character regulated verse, seven-character regulated verse, five-character ancient verse, and seven-character ancient verse. Within each category, the poems are not arranged by the chronological order of the poets. Each poem is accompanied by Xu Yuanchong's English translation and Xu Fang's and Han Shan's modern translation, making this book a bilingual and bicultural masterpiece.