This episode discusses how the genre begins to broaden thematically in the work of somewhat later literati poets who continued to write in the short xiaoling form. Poems by the Last Emperor of the Southern Tang, Li Yu, and by Northern Song statesman Yan Shu demonstrate how the genre begins to take on themes like nostalgia and friendship
Thanks to his innovative use of leading words (lingzi), Liu Yong creates a multilayered structure fo...
In this final episode, we will first listen to the “Song of Suffering Calamity” by the woman poet an...
This episode continues our previous discussion of the Li sao or On Encountering Trouble. It focuses ...
This episode introduces us to the genre of the song lyric using two anonymous poems that present a m...
This episode discusses how Qu Yuan’s poetry and biography flow seamlessly into each other, and how t...
The three courtship forms, “I Beg of you, Zhong Zi,” “The Banks of the Ru,” and “The Retiring Girl,”...
This episode discusses the interactions between courtesans and the literati during the Tang and how ...
The Chinese equivalent term of quatrain, i.e., jueju, literally means “cut-off lines.” It was believ...
This episode provides a brief general introduction to Chuci; it also discusses a poem in this repert...
This episode discusses how the language of love and kinship is used in diplomatic negotiations throu...
Although a small number of Six Dynasties heptasyllabic quatrains are extant, and Early Tang poets ex...
This episode discusses Li sao or On Encountring Trouble,” the crowning achievement in the Chu ci rep...
[[abstract]]楚辭《九歌》本是源于沅湘之間的民間歌謠,民間歌謠與祭神祀曲的歌樂特質,影響及于漢唐樂府。郭茂倩《樂府詩集》編集了從陶唐到五代樂府詩一百卷,共分十二類,其中保留楚聲、楚調的有《郊...
“Woven” like many of the Da ya (Greater Odes) sings of two of the heroes who laid the groundwork for...
A master of tune and sense, Li Qingzhao knows how to bring out her almost unspeakable inner feeling ...
Thanks to his innovative use of leading words (lingzi), Liu Yong creates a multilayered structure fo...
In this final episode, we will first listen to the “Song of Suffering Calamity” by the woman poet an...
This episode continues our previous discussion of the Li sao or On Encountering Trouble. It focuses ...
This episode introduces us to the genre of the song lyric using two anonymous poems that present a m...
This episode discusses how Qu Yuan’s poetry and biography flow seamlessly into each other, and how t...
The three courtship forms, “I Beg of you, Zhong Zi,” “The Banks of the Ru,” and “The Retiring Girl,”...
This episode discusses the interactions between courtesans and the literati during the Tang and how ...
The Chinese equivalent term of quatrain, i.e., jueju, literally means “cut-off lines.” It was believ...
This episode provides a brief general introduction to Chuci; it also discusses a poem in this repert...
This episode discusses how the language of love and kinship is used in diplomatic negotiations throu...
Although a small number of Six Dynasties heptasyllabic quatrains are extant, and Early Tang poets ex...
This episode discusses Li sao or On Encountring Trouble,” the crowning achievement in the Chu ci rep...
[[abstract]]楚辭《九歌》本是源于沅湘之間的民間歌謠,民間歌謠與祭神祀曲的歌樂特質,影響及于漢唐樂府。郭茂倩《樂府詩集》編集了從陶唐到五代樂府詩一百卷,共分十二類,其中保留楚聲、楚調的有《郊...
“Woven” like many of the Da ya (Greater Odes) sings of two of the heroes who laid the groundwork for...
A master of tune and sense, Li Qingzhao knows how to bring out her almost unspeakable inner feeling ...
Thanks to his innovative use of leading words (lingzi), Liu Yong creates a multilayered structure fo...
In this final episode, we will first listen to the “Song of Suffering Calamity” by the woman poet an...
This episode continues our previous discussion of the Li sao or On Encountering Trouble. It focuses ...