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A Little Primer Of Tu Fu

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The deepest and most varied of the Tang Dynasty poets, Tu Fu (Du Fu) is, in the words of David Hinton, the "first complete poetic sensibility in Chinese literature." First published in 1967, this book presents thirty-five Chinese poems with a pinyin transliteration, a character-by-character translation, and commentaries on the subject, form, and historical background. Hawkes gives us a nuts-and-bolts account of how the poems of one of the world's greatest poets are constructed. It's an irresistible challenge for readers to invent their own translations.

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Tu Fu (712-770) lived during a time when the Tang Dynasty was wracked by war and mass dislocation and starvation. A minor bureaucrat, a refugee, and a political exile, he wavered between the Confucian ideal of serving his country and the Taoist dream of a hermitage in nature. He lived both. David Hawkes (1923-2009) was for many years a Professor of Chinese and later a Research Fellow at Oxford University. His translations included the 2nd- century anthology, The Songs of the South, and a magisterial multi-volume version of Cao Xueqin's 18th-century novel, The Story of the Stone (The Dream of the Red Chamber), considered by many to be the greatest translation into English of Chinese prose.
Release date NZ
June 14th, 2016
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Edition
Main
Pages
290
Dimensions
142x215x15
ISBN-13
9789629966591
Product ID
24148692

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