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Category: Poetry

1970s/Communism/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Poetry/Teaching/Translation

Teaching the death of Mao Zedong

Posted on May 9, 2022 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

If you ever have to teach about the end of Maoism, Ai Qing‘s poem “On the Crest of a Wave” is a good thing to use. Ai was one of China’s...

Literature/Poetry/Teaching

The Songs of Chu

Posted on August 1, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Columbia University Press sent me a copy of Gopal Suku’s new translation of Qu Yuan’s The Songs of Chu. I am not qualified to speak about it as a scholarly tran...

Anecdotes/Literature/Poetry/Translation

Li Bai and the whale

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One of the books I will be using in class this Fall is Sanyan Stories by Feng Menglong. In class we will be using the much condensed version from University of ...

Books/China/Historiography/Poetry/Translation

Early Medieval China

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Just for fun I have been reading Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook.1 It is a very good book, written by a collection of the superheros of the field. The advert...

Books/China/Countryside/Culture/English/Literature/Poetry/Translation

Rustic poetry

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

The contrast between the center and the periphery is a common theme in Chinese literature. To be an official sent from the capital to the provinces, or a sent-d...

China/Literature/Poetry

Thin layer sensing with multipolar plasmonic resonances (and showgirls)

Posted on December 6, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Via Language Log, something on how to make a fool of yourself in Chinese. Apparently the Max Plank Institute asked for a nice Chinese poem for their cover and g...

China/English/Poetry/Translation

Mountains, Vikings, and Chinese Poetry

Posted on November 2, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Lots of people seem to like Chinese poetry. The latest NYRB has a review of a reprint of A.C. Graham’s Poems of the Late T’ang by Eliot Weinberger.1...

China/Civil War/General/Poetry/Sino-Japanese Wars/War

Voice of the people

Posted on July 20, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One nice thing about Chinese history is that there is a long history of recording popular songs. From the Han at least it was assumed that popular songs reflect...

China/Classics/General/Literature/Poetry

Six Dynasties blogging

Posted on June 19, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One of the things I have been doing for fun this summer is reading Family Instructions for the Yen clan 顏氏家訓by Yen Chih-t’ui 顏之推 (T’eng Ssu-Yu trans Leiden 1968...

China/Classics/English/General/Language/Literature/Poetry

Hightower Obituary

Posted on March 4, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

If you’re an H-Asia reader, you already saw this, but if you’re not, it’s an interesting look at the 20th century history of Asian literary st...

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