The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry

by Stephen Owen

Over the centuries, early Chinese classical poetry became embedded in a chronological account with great cultural resonance and came to be transmitted in versions accepted as authoritative. But modern scholarship has questioned components of the account and cast doubt on the accuracy of received texts. The result has destabilized the study of early Chinese poetry.

This study adopts a double approach to the poetry composed between the end...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674021363
• ISBN13: 9780674021365
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"