How to Read Chinese Poetry《A Must-Have for Chinese Poetry Learners》

This book is perfectly designed for a variety of Chinese poetry readers learners and even researchers. The eighteen chapters starting from The Book of Poetry and ending with the Ming-Qing poetry cover Chinese poetry tradition of more than two thousand years and all types of Chinese poetry genres and sub-genres in this marvelous tradition. You will easily get to know how Chinese poetry developed for two thousand years even just after scanning the Primary Table of Contents!

In these chapters authors deliberately choose great poems of each important period or Dynasty in Chinese history. They not only list these poems in Chinese characters translate them into English (for regulated verses and songs there is even word by word translation) and show each word in pinyin with tones but also ***yze these beautiful poems in historical background and poetic tradition. The templates of poems including original Chinese texts English translation and Chinese pinyin with tones to a great extent help Chinese language learners to learn how to understand Chinese poetry word by word and how to recite them in Chinese. The ***ysis of poems following will largely improve your knowledge of how to appreciate the beauty of Chinese poems and more importantly will help you get to see the great ideas underlying those poetic lines in terms of culture history religion art music and etc.

And the well-done thematic table of contents glossary-index list of entering tones and careful explanations of syntax structure and many other major issues of Chinese poetry will be very useful even for a scholar of Chinese poetry. You will save plenty of time looking up those important information in all kinds of Chinese dictionaries!