A Silver Treasury of Chinese Lyrics the product of a renaissance

the product of a renaissance movement led by the great scholar-official Han Yü

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“My intention is to make the translation of a poem to read like a poem itself … Poetry cannot really be translated into prose

the authors extend their explorations to cover the contexts within which the translators worked from different perspectives

the only one of its kind in English

A Silver Treasury of Chinese Lyrics the product of a renaissanceEdited by Alice W. Cheang2003186 pagesISBN 962 7255 27 0 The song lyric (ci), which began as a form of minor divertissement in the urban pleasure quarters of eighth and ninth century China, evolved into a major, and then dominant, poetic form over the four centuries that followed. Though most of the original tunes are now lost, the lyric remains unrivalled among Chinese literary genres for musicality and sheer evocative power. It was also, until