Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650

The Chin, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties

Kojiro Yoshikawa, John Timothy Wixted

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780691015224, 9780691634456
• eBook ISBN: 9781400860463
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry offers the only historical survey, in any language, of this important span of Chinese poetry. Written by the foremost Japanese sinologist of this century, and translated here in a lucid analogue to his famous prose style, the work provides a brief but comprehensive review of the period's literary history, a sketch of its political and social history in relation to literature, and a rendering of more than one hundred and fifty poems.

Originally published in 1989.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Translator's Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Chinese Poetry of the Later Imperial Dynasties
• 2. Chin Dynasty Poetry: Reaction to the Mongol Incursion, 1150-1250
• 3. Southern Sung Loyalist Poetry, 1250-1300
• 4. The Maturation of Yuan Poetry, 1300-1350
• 5. The Early Ming, 1350-1400
• 6. The Middle Ming (I): Stagnation and Revival, 1400-1500
• 7. The Middle Ming (II): The Age of Old Phraseology, 1500-1600
• 8. The Late Ming, 1600-1650
• Afterword by William S. Atwell
• Index