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  • A Collection of Chinese Lyrics

    Rendered into Verse by Alan Ayling from translations of the Chinese by Duncan Mackintosh

    by Alan Ayling, Duncan Mackintosh ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Chinese Literature and Arts
    This book, first published in 1965, covers a period of one thousand years and collects together some of the best examples of Chinese Lyrics (tz’u). The authors reflect in translation not only the spirit of the original, but also something of its poetical ornamentations and lyric pattern. The Chinese original of each poem faces the English and is written in a Chinese scholar’s distinguished ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • A Further Collection of Chinese Lyrics

    Rendered into Verse by Alan Ayling from translations of the Chinese by Duncan Mackintosh in collaboration with Ch'eng Hsi and T'ung Ping-Cheng

    by Alan Ayling, Duncan Mackintosh ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Chinese Literature and Arts
    This book, first published in 1969, builds on the authors’ first selection and contains a selection of Chinese lyrics (tz’u) mainly from Sung Dynasty poets who made this verse-form lastingly popular. Two of these poets, Su Shih and Hsin Ch’i Chi, add a fresh and robust note to the traditional theme of nostalgia and separation. As in the previous volume, the Chinese original, written with a scholar ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

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