Stephen Owen’s masterful translations and commentaries have opened up Chinese literary thought to theorists and scholars of other languages. The volume as a whole demonstrates the various ways in which the modern Western reader can confront the impressive variety of texts from the classical Chinese tradition. This dual-language compilation of seven complete major works and many shorter pieces from the Confucian period through the Ch’ing dynasty will be indispensable to students of Chinese literature. There are at least two essays-when possible from scholars in different fields-on each work. Both the original Chinese versions and the translations are provided for each primary text. passages from Mencius and Zhuangzi the Heart Sutra a poem by Du Fu and the Biography of Yingying by Yuan Zhen, both written during the Tang dynasty and Notes on the Method for the Brush, a tenth-century text attributed to Jing Hao. One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs (Shijing) is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs left from antiquity. namely, the book of seven songs by Tu Fu and Tu Fu: wanderer and minstrel. In addition, it contains a foreword by Stephen Owen, plus Joseph R. The texts themselves include a poem from the Classic of Poetry compiled in the sixth century b.c.e. Among them, in 2016, Stephen Owens publication the poem of Du Fu,which took. One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs (Shijing) is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs left from antiquity. This book contains Arthur Waleys translation of the bulk of the songs along with his comments. The remarkable diversity of these works-drawn from literature, philosophy, religion, and art history-challenges the presumption of a monolithic Chinese tradition that has been promoted by scholars and popular culture alike, both in China and the West.

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The Book of Songs by Stephen Owen