The songs of the Royal Zhōu (“Zhōu Nán” 周南) and of the Royal Shào (“Shào Nán” 召南) have formed a conceptual unit since at least the late Spring and Autumn period (771–453 BC). With this book Meyer and ...Schwartz provide a first complete reading of their earliest, Warring States (453–221 BC), iteration as witnessed by the Ānhuī University manuscripts. As a thought experiment, the authors seek to establish an emic reading of these songs, which they contextualise in the larger framework of studies of the Shī (Songs) and of meaning production during the Warring States period more broadly. The analysis casts light on how the Songs were used by different groups during the Warring States period.
Heroines of Jiangyongis the first English translation of a set of verse narratives recorded in the unique women's script (nushu) of rural Jiangyong County, Hunan, in southern China. This selection of ...Chinese folk literature provides a rare window into the everyday life of rural daughters, wives, and mothers, as they transmit valuable lessons about surviving in a patriarchal society that is often harsh and unforgiving. Featuring strong female protagonists, the ballads deal with moral issues, dangers women face outside the family home, and the difficulties of childbirth.
The women's script, which represents units of sound in the local Chinese dialect, was discovered by scholars in the late twentieth century, creating a stir in China and abroad. This volume offers a full translation of all the longer ballads in women's script, providing an exceptional opportunity to observe which specific narratives appealed to rural women in traditional China. The translations are preceded by a brief introduction to women's script and its scholarship, and a discussion of each of the twelve selections.
The oral factor in Chinese literature, although critically important, has been largely neglected in the scholarship of the last generation. In this study, one of the leading specialists in classical ...Chinese literature introduces readers to a repertoire of seventy-seven songs and ballads of early imperial China. Each song-text is newly translated and fully annotated and explicated. Anne Birrell deals systematically with problems of the earliest sources, attribution, textual variants, meter, and structure. Her introductory essay provides a valuable sociohistorical context for this material. First published in 1988, this important study of the folk song has become standard reading for students of oral literature and Chinese folklore and popular culture.
This book deals with Chinese and Japanese inscriptions (8th century AD) about the footprints of Buddha. The language of the Japanese inscription reflects the contemporary dialect of Nara. Its writing ...system presents a special interest being practically monophonic.
Review(s) of: The Hong Kong Literature series edited by John Minford and published by Chinese University Press in 2020 consists of six books: The Drunkard by Liu Yichang. 368 pages, ISBN ...978-988-237-186-6, HK$250; Dragons: Shorter Fiction of Leung Ping-kwan by Leung Ping-kwan. 188 pages, ISBN 978-988-237-190-3, HK$190; Lotus Leaves: Selected Poems of Leung Ping-kwan by Leung Ping-kwan, 280 pages. ISBN 978-988-237-191-0, HK$210; The Teddy Bear Chronicles by Xi Xi. 200 pages, ISBN 978-988-237-185-9, HK$210; Ordinary Days: A Memoir in Six Chapters by Leo Ou-fan Lee and Esther Yuying Lee. 400 pages, ISBN 978-988-237-196-5, HK$230; The Best China: Essays from Hong Kong ed. John Minford, 368 pages, ISBN 978-988-237-197-2, HK$250.
In conventional ancient Chinese poetry learning, students tend to be under-motivated and fail to understand many aspects of poetry. As generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has been applied to ...education, image-GAI (iGAI) provides great opportunities for students to generate visualized images based on their descriptions of poems, and to situate students in a context similar to what a poem describes. In addition, the progressive prompt is a strategy that can progressively provide students with clues and guidance in technology-enhanced learning environments. Hence, this study proposed a progressive prompts-based image-GAI (PP-iGAI) approach to support students' ancient Chinese poetry learning. To evaluate its effectiveness, the present study employed a quasi-experiment design and recruited 80 fifth-grade elementary school students to engage in one of two conditions: one class was assigned as the experimental group and adopted the PP-iGAI approach, while the other class was assigned as the control group and used the conventional prompt-based iGAI (C-iGAI) approach. The results revealed that the PP-iGAI approach could better promote students' learning achievement, extrinsic motivation, problem-solving awareness, critical thinking, and learning performance. In addition, no significant differences were found in the two groups' cognitive load. Moreover, the results of the interview disclosed the learning perceptions and experiences of both groups. Accordingly, the present study can provide a reference not only for ancient Chinese poetry learning but also for the application of GAI in educational fields for future research.
The interplay between the external world (ching) and the poet’s inner world (ch’ing) lies at the heart of Chinese poetry, and understanding the interaction of the two is crucial to understanding this ...work from within its own tradition. Closely coordinating her discussions of poetry and criticism so that practice and theory become mutually enriching and illuminating, Sun offers sensitive and original readings of poems and a wealth of insights into Chinese poetics.
The interplay between the external world (ching) and the poet’s inner world (ch’ing) lies at the heart of Chinese poetry, and understanding the interaction of the two is crucial to understanding this work from within its own tradition. Closely coordinating her discussions of poetry and criticism so that practice and theory become mutually enriching and illuminating, Sun offers sensitive and original readings of poems and a wealth of insights into Chinese poetics.
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