The Birth of China Seen Through Poetry

By: Hong-Mo Chan

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Paperback | 25 March 2011

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The book introduces Chinese culture to readers of English, using poetry from the various periods rendered into English verse to bring back to life past Chinese society as it developed from about 1000 B.C to the form we see today. With China's increasing importance on the world stage today, many readers, no doubt, would want to learn more about its ancient culture. However, to learn about a culture from its history alone, especially one as long as that of China, is time-consuming and requires a historian's expert skill. This book offers the general reader a direct glimpse into the human core of it via the universally accessible channel of poetry. It provides an outline of Chinese history from prehistoric times to the present printed mostly on left-hand pages, accompanied on the right by a selection of Chinese poems of the corresponding periods translated into English verse by the author. The poems total about eighty in number and come mostly from the classical phase dating from around 1000 B.C. to 1200 A.D.

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Introduction	p. 1
Prehistory	p. 7
The Spring and Autumn Period (770-475 B.C.)	p. 8
In the Seventh Month (Shijing)	p. 11
Rouse not the Dog (Shijing)	p. 17
War-drum (Shijing)	p. 19
Fluff-ball (Shijing)	p. 21
Tuck up your Clothes (Shijing)	p. 23
Tightly Bound (Shijing)	p. 25
Winning Smiles (Shijing)	p. 27
The Warring States (475-221 B.C.)	p. 30
In the Beginning there was… (Qu Yuan)	p. 33
The God of the Yellow River (Qu Yuan)	p. 35
Lament for the Fall of Ying (Qu Yuan)	p. 39
The Qin Dynasty (221 - 206 B.C.)	p. 42
Encircled	p. 45
The Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.)	p. 46
Cartwheels (Anonymous)	p. 49
Parting at Dawn (Anonymous)	p. 51
Vultures (Anonymous)	p. 53
Home-coming (Anonymous)	p. 55
Even Hungry, I'll not Feed with Tigers (Anonymous)	p. 57
Promise (Anonymous)	p. 59
A Length of Silk (Anonymous)	p. 61
The Building of the Great Wall	p. 63
Eighteen Pieces for the Hujia	p. 67
Wine! Let's Sing with it a Song	p. 71
Wei, Jin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties (220-624 A.D.)	p. 74
Beans and the Beanstalk	p. 77
Overnight Stop at Longtou (Anonymous)	p. 79
Dancing by the River (Anonymous)	p. 81
Jujube (Anonymous)	p. 83
The Well on Top of Mount Huayin (Anonymous)	p. 85
Ballad of the Three Gorges (Anonymous)	p. 87
Wordless	p. 89
Resignation	p. 91
A String my Zither Broke	p. 93
The Tang Dynasty (624-907 A.D.)	p. 94
The Distant View on Top …	p. 97
Worship at Shrine of Master Kong	p. 101
Taishan Peak	p. 103
Down the River to Jiangling	p. 105
Pastorale	p. 107
Chance Encounter Afloat	p. 109
A Parting Cup	p. 111
Tonight We Feast	p. 113
A Flask of Wine Alone among Flowers	p. 117
Chariots Rumble	p. 119
Hu is Emptied	p. 123
Autumn Night in Frontier Land	p. 125
Brief Encounter with a Cousin	p. 127
Poor Old Liu Wenshu	p. 129
Pick Your Flowers When in Bloom	p. 131
O Shoo away that Nightingale	p. 133
Wolves of the Manor	p. 135
The First Emperor	p. 137
The Bronze Man's Farewell	p. 139
A Lost Paradise	p. 141
Like Flower, but not a Flower	p. 145
Mother	p. 147
Invitation	p. 149
Bashan's Rain	p. 151
Water	p. 153
Sunset	p. 155
Green Hills	p. 157
Untitled	p. 159
A Parting Gift	p. 161
Chrysanthemums	p. 163
Song and its preceding Five Dynasties (907-1273 A.D.)	p. 164
A Moonlike Vision	p. 167
A Very Special Taste	p. 169
Rouge-Tinted Wine	p. 171
East Wind	p. 173
She's Learned to Make the Pipa Cry	p. 175
Where is Spring?	p. 177
Wildgoose on a Snow-bound Field	p. 179
Plum Blossoms in the Shade	p. 181
White Ash	p. 183
Where Brows and Eyes Entwine	p. 185
Watch on a Lone Fortress	p. 189
Cricket	p. 191
Visions of Home	p. 193
One Autumn Morning	p. 195
Found on a Wall of Xiongzhou Station (Jiang Xingju's daughter)	p. 197
The Festival of Lights	p. 199
On Brown Heron Tower	p. 201
O Sorrow, Why Dost Borrow	p. 203
Roundoff	p. 204
The March of the Volunteers (National Anthem)	p. 210
This Festering Wound of History (unknown)	p. 212
Dark Tears	p. 213
Ambition of the Common Man	p. 214
Timeline and Maps	p. 217
Historical Sources, Original Poems	p. 227
A Recital of the Poems	p. 243
Captions of Illustrations	p. 245
Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms	p. 249
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