{"product_id":"chinese-poetic-writing-isbn-9789629966584","title":"Chinese Poetic Writing","description":"\u003cb\u003eConsidered the most inovative study of Chinese poetry ever written, François Cheng's Chinese Poetic Writing--now in its first expanded, English-language edition--is an essential read for fans and scholars of Chinese literature and the art of poetry in general.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Since its first publication in French in 1977, \u003ci\u003eChinese Poetic Writing \u003c\/i\u003ehas been considered by many to be the most innovative study of Chinese poetry ever written, as well as a profound and remarkable meditation on the nature of poetry itself. As the American poet Gustaf Sobin wrote, two years after the book’s appearance, “In France it is already considered a model of interdisciplinary research, a source book, and a ‘star’ in the very space it initially explored, traced, and elaborated.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Cheng illustrates his text with an annotated anthology of 135 poems he has selected from the Tang dynasty, presented bilingually, and with lively translations by Jerome P. Seaton. It serves as a book within the book, and an excellent introduction to the golden age of Tu Fu, Li Po, Wang Wei, and company.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The 1982 translation, long out of print, was based on the first French edition. Since then, Cheng has greatly expanded the book. This is the first English-language edition of the expanded version, with the original translators returning to accommodate the many new additions and revise their earlier work.\"Every Anglophone reader interested in the working mechanics behind    Chinese poetry will find these texts to be endless resources worth    returning to again and again....\u003ci\u003eChinese Poetic Writing\u003c\/i\u003e offers a  richly informative look at the ordering principles implicit in Chinese  language and thought....Although aimed as being introductory in nature,  both \u003ci\u003eA Little Primer of Tu Fu\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChinese Poetic Writing\u003c\/i\u003e nonetheless forefront the presentation of the poem in Chinese   characters, clearly emphasizing the importance of the original language   in fully understanding any poetry.\" —\u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Cheng’s book, \u003ci\u003eL’ecriture poetique chinoise\u003c\/i\u003e, soon became a classic in the already extensive corpus of French translations of Chinese poetry, and remains a staple of every French sinologist’s library...Cheng’s work complemented and enhanced a body of French translations...already impressive for both its quantity and diversity.”—Paula Varsano \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Cheng, writing in 1977, produces a complex and detailed approach to Chinese writing practices that complicates both pictographic and phonological assumptions.”—Scott Nygren \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “My...reaction was astonishment that anyone could accomplish the task [of translation] with such sensitivity and formal tact. Every line, detail and compositional device in the poems that Cheng studies is given its appropriate emphasis and placement, so that not only the individual meaning but the combined significance emerges with clarity and refreshing illumination. This is that rare scholarly work that gives pleasure as well as understanding...a work that represents a definite advance in the study of Chinese poetry.”—John Kwan-Terry, \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrançois Cheng\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, essayist, novelist, calligrapher, and art historian who has lived in Paris since 1949. Among his books available in English translation are \u003ci\u003eEmpty and Full: The Language of Chinese Painting\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Way of Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novels \u003ci\u003eThe River Below\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGreen Mountain, White Cloud\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2002, he became the first person of Asian origin elected to the French Academy. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDonald A. Riggs\u003c\/b\u003e is Teaching Professor of English at Drexel University. He is currently writing entries for \u003ci\u003eThe Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJerome P. Seaton\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emeritus of Chinese at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Among his books are \u003ci\u003eThe Shambhala Anthology of Chinese Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wine of Endless Life: Taoist Drinking Songs from the Yuan Dynasty.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302501667045,"sku":"NP9789629966584","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9789629966584.jpg?v=1767723669","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/chinese-poetic-writing-isbn-9789629966584","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}