William Dolby

Self published in 2003, this work represents the 3rd of 33 of the Chinese Culture Series.

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Poetry has for millennia been the crown of Chinese culture. Confucius was clear that an understanding was essential to fine thinking. The West has largely seen only ethereal aspects of Chinese poetry, but in reality the Chinese realm of poetic composition was a richly interacting and eclectic one, including both the elegant and sparse and the vulgar and red-blooded, and some of the best poems delighted in intermingling and playing off the two extremes. This anthology presents all the most famous poems, many never before translated into English or any Western language, and also the "humbler" nursery-rhyme, jingle, riddle and popular-entertainment poetry, and an entirely new and more holistic and human picture of the Chinese gamut of poetic composition.

1. Kuan Han-Ch'ing: China's first Playwright
2. Bring on the Wine and other Poems by Li Pai
3. Chinese Poetry Through The Ages: an Anthology
4. Chinese Short Stories - Spanning 2000 Years
5. History of early Chinese Ch'ü-aria Poetry
6. Sayings of Confucius and his Students
7. Ma Chih-yüan's Complete San-ch'ü-aria Poems
8. Wang Shi-Fu, Author of China's Most Famous Play
9. West Wing Chantefable by Tung Chieh-yüan
10. Sir Old, the Chinese Classic of Taoism
11. Peking Opera
12. Yüan Dynasty Variety Plays
13. Mr Ma and son in London
14. Songs Classic: China’s earliest poetry anthology
15. Classical Chinese textbook
16. Three Hundred T'ang Dynasty Poems
17. Yüan Dynasty Variety Play dramas: 100 stories
18. Chinese Folk-tales
19. Chinese Humour: an Anthology
20. Gold-producing Mansion
21. Chinese Riddles
22. Chinese Elliptical Idioms (hsieh-hou-yu)
23. West Wing, China's most famous drama
24. Washing Silk, a drama by Liang Ch'en-yi (1520-ca.1580)
25. Chinee Drama Poems
26. Chinese Prose: Biographies, Prefaces, Anecdotes ...
27. Chinese Myths
28. Chinese Prose: Biographies, Prefaces, Anecdotes ...
29. Lasting-life Palace-hall by Hung Sheng (1654-1704)
30. Chinese non-drama aria-poems, an anthology (VOLUME ONE)
31. Chinese Poetry Through the Ages
32. Dictionary of Chinese Idioms, Proverbs and Sayings
33. Anthology of Chinese non-drama aria-poems (VOLUME TWO)