num_pages: 272
description: The ten articles in this volume include an introduction to the Ming scholar Yang Shen and his wife and translations of some of their poems; explorations of a middle ground between the literalist and non-literalists approaches in Chinese-English verse translation, a close critical analysis of the relationship between the tonal patterns of a Tang-regulated quatrain and poetic meaning, and the poetic use of function words in Tang poetry.
language: English
title: Excursions in Chinese Culture
titlecomplete: Excursions in Chinese Culture
publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press