Dialogues in the Dark: Interpreting Heavenly Questions Across Two - Millenni

Dialogues in the Dark traces how Chinese readers and scholars since the Han dynasty have variously interpreted the ancient poem "Heavenly Questions" (Tianwen), an enigmatic work attributed to Qu Yuan (fl. ca. 300 BCE). Nicholas Morrow Williams analyzes how the poem's meaning evolved in different time periods and provides three new translations.

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Nicholas Morrow Williams

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• Authors: Nicholas Morrow Williams
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.07.2025
• EAN: 9780674299993
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29999-3
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies