Seven Lectures on Wang Guoweis Renjian Cihua

List of contents

Translator’s preface

Lecture 1 Wang Guowei, the Ci Genre, and the notion of Jingjie

Lecture 2 Distinctives of the Ci cenre, part I
Lecture 3 Layers of meaning in the Ci: double gender, double context

Lecture 4 Distinctives of the Ci genre, part II: major poets of the late Tang and Five Dynasties: Wen Tingyun and Wei Zhuang

Lecture 5 Major poets of the late Tang and Five Dynasties: Wen Tingyun and Feng Yansi

Lecture 6 Major poets of the Five Dynasties and Song: Li Yu, Liu Yong, and Su Shi
Lecture 7 Reflections on Ci aesthetics and Ci criticism

Works Cited

Appendix: Relevant passages from the Renjian cihua in Chinese

Index

About the author

Florence Chia-ying Yeh is a professor at the University of British Columbia in Canada, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a master scholar and teacher of traditional Chinese literature. Her major works include, in Chinese, Tang Song ci shiqi jiang (Seventeen lectures on the ci poetry of the Tang and Song dynasties), Xiao ci da ya (The great elegance of ci poetry), Du Fu "Qiu xing ba shou" ji shuo (Collected lectures on Du Fu’s eight "Autumn Meditations"); and in English, Studies in Chinese Poetry (with James Hightower).

Summary

Renjian Cihua is a masterpiece in Chinese literary criticism written by Wang Guowei, a famous scholar in the study of Chinese classics. This book includes the translation of Renjian Cihua, as well as the lectures given by the author Florence Chia-ying Yeh, a Chinese-born Canadian poet and scholar of classical Chinese poetry.

Product details

• Authors: Florence Chia-Ying Yeh, Florence (Professor Chia-Ying Yeh
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367663469
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66346-9
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: China Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Chinese, Chinese, Regional Studies, Literary studies: general, Regional / International studies