New songs from a jade terrace : an anthology of early Chinese love poetry / translated with annotations and an introduction by Anne Birrell ; with a foreword by Burton Watson and a critical essay by J. H. Prynne.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Chinese Series: Penguin classicsPublication details: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin, 1986.Description: xxv, 401 p. : map ; 20 cmISBN: - 0140444874
- Yu tai xin yong. English.
- 221 B.C. - 589 A.D
- Chinese poetry -- Ch�in and Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D -- Translations into English
- Chinese poetry -- 220-589 -- Translations into English
- English poetry -- Translations from Chinese
- Love poetry, Chinese -- Translations into English
- Love poetry, English -- Translations from Chinese
- Chinese poetry
- Love poetry, Chinese
- Asian Lives
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Translation of: Yu tai xin yong.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The overall theme of the collection involves the discussion of sex and gender roles and ideals of love and beauty. Some of the poems are matter-of-factly homoerotic, describing the beloved young man involved in much the same terms as the female beloved is in other pieces. In other cases, a "hint of fetishism" is shown in poetic verses describing the objects associated with the men and women described in the poems.
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