Ming and Qing Dynasty Poetry (Treasure Edition) (Treasure Edition)

Author: Zhang Bingxu
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This book does not categorize the poets by dynasty. The reason is that among the numerous authors, those who spanned both preceding and succeeding dynasties are difficult to assign to a specific category, such as the Jin-Yuan, Yuan-Ming, or Ming-Qing transition periods. Many authors lived through two dynasties, making it challenging to determine their. Therefore, the book adopts a non-dynastic approach, arranging the poets in chronological order based on their birth years, creating a general sequence. The book selects 129 poets from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, featuring 243 poems. It is difficult to fully reflect the literary landscape of the approximately 700 years through such a selection, but efforts have been made to consider style and school when choosing the poems. Representative, readable works that offer a glimpse into the era's characteristics and demonstrate artistic excellence have been included. This approach aims to provide a small but telling sample, allowing readers to appreciate the significant achievements of poets and poems from these three dynasties, as well as their high aesthetic and intellectual value.