'The Lament for the South': Yu Hsin's 'ai Chiang-Nan Fu'

by William T. Graham Jr.

Book Overview

The Ai Chiang-nan fu by the sixth-century poet Yu Hsin is one of the most famous and difficult of all Chinese medieval poems. It relates in a highly allegorical and elliptical manner the fall of the Liang dynasty, which the poet served. The poem belongs to the genre of the fu; rhapsodical, elegiac works written in an irregular metre. It is, however not at all typical of the genre, which is more often associated with descriptions of hunting parks,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521101867
• ISBN13: 9780521101868
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"