The Lament of the South: Yu Hsin's 'Ai Chiang-Nan Fu' (CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN CHINESE HISTORY, LITERATURE AND INSTITUTIONS) (Hardback)
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Short Description for The Lament of the South The Ai Chiang-nan fu by the sixth-century poet Yu Hsin deserves study both for its literary merits and for its uniqueness.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 12 June 1980
- Format: Hardback 248 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: General | Cultural Studies | English Language | Asian History
- ISBN 13: 9780521227131 ISBN 10: 0521227135
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Full description for The Lament of the South
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, sacrifices, plants and birds. The poem thus deserves study both for its literary merits and for its uniqueness. Dr Graham provides a translation of the poem with a very detailed literary and historical commentary. Most previous studies of the fu have concentrated on the Han period but Dr Graham offers an extended discussion in any language of the genre in the period of the six dynasties (222 589). The book also includes an introduction to the history of the period.
